# Member of Technical Staff — Training Infrastructure at Causal

> Onsite · United States · Staff · DevOps / SRE / Infra · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Acausal%3A1ff002cd-87af-4dc8-88c4-786e4e03475d (read 2026-11-08).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Causal](https://alderhq.app/companies/causal)
- Location text: San Francisco; Singapore
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco; Singapore")
- Posted: 2025-10-29 (375 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-07
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/causal/1ff002cd-87af-4dc8-88c4-786e4e03475d
- Skills listed (inferred): PyTorch, LLMs

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 122): p25 $230k, median $257k, p75 $300k

## Description (the employer's text)

Our mission is general causal intelligence; AI that is capable of (1) predicting the future and (2) identifying the actions to alter it.

To achieve this breakthrough, we are building a Large Physics foundation Model (LPM) because physical systems, unlike text or images, are governed by verifiable cause and effect. We believe that scaling on physics will enable an understanding of causality required to predict and control physical systems, starting with weather.

Our founding team has built and deployed AI against the physical world in robotics, drug discovery, and particle physics at institutions like DeepMind, Waymo, Cruise, Insitro, Nabla Bio, and CERN.

We look for infrastructure engineers who are excited to tackle unsolved problems. Training an LPM means scaling novel architectures over multimodal physical data — a problem where the playbooks from language and vision only partially apply. Your mission is to make large-scale training fast, efficient, and reliable, so that every GPU cycle accelerates research progress.

### Responsibilities

Design, implement, and optimize distributed training systems that scale across thousands of GPUs

Research and test parallelization strategies and numerical precision trade-offs across model scales, including for architectures that don't map cleanly onto existing LLM training stacks

Analyze, profile, and debug low-level GPU operations to maximize throughput and hardware utilization

Build reusable frameworks for checkpointing, fault tolerance, and reproducibility that stay robust under rapid research iteration

Collaborate with researchers to bring novel model architectures from prototype to full scale

Stay up-to-date on research to bring new ideas to work

### What we're looking for

We value a relentless approach to problem-solving, rapid execution, and the ability to quickly learn in unfamiliar domains.

Demonstrated proficiency with distributed training frameworks and techniques (e.g. FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron, Pytorch, JAX/XLA) to train large foundation models

Strong grasp of state-of-the-art techniques for optimizing training workloads: parallelism strategies, memory optimization, mixed precision, communication overlap

Ability to profile and debug performance in complex codebases, from framework internals down to kernels and collectives

Deep understanding of deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, JAX) and their underlying system architectures

Bonus: contributions to open-source ML infrastructure (e.g. PyTorch, Megatron-LM, DeepSpeed, XLA)

---
Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Acausal%3A1ff002cd-87af-4dc8-88c4-786e4e03475d and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.