AI Engineer (UAE)

Role Overview

Vatic Labs is hiring an AI Engineer for Abu Dhabi with proven experience in large foundational models.

Company Overview

Vatic operates a highly collaborative environment fostering innovation and growth. The team is composed of talented engineers recognized as leaders in their field, passionate about hiring the best and brightest and empowering them with the tools and freedom needed to be successful.

Role Purpose

As an AI Engineer, you will design and develop cutting-edge frameworks and platforms that leverage foundational models to drive trading and research efforts, while conducting state-of-the-art research across diverse data modalities and modern model architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Framework & Platform Development

• Design and develop cutting-edge frameworks that serve as future tools for innovative platforms and systems driving trading and research efforts through foundational models.
• Work closely with a team of passionate researchers and engineers to ensure frameworks are compatible with recent cloud platforms, popular ML frameworks and libraries, and modern model architectures.

Research & Experimentation

• Play a central role in defining and running large-scale experiments that contribute towards rigorous evaluation and in-depth model analysis.

Qualifications & Experience

• Keen interest in training, evaluation, understanding, and innovation of foundational models.
• Direct experience with multi-GPU model training.
• Demonstrable success building high performance software.

Skills & Competencies

• Advanced proficiency with Python development in a Linux environment.
• Strong understanding of machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI methods and technologies.
• Performance tuning and optimization of software and algorithms.
• Familiarity with parallel computing models and frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Confident team player motivated by a fast-paced environment.
• Excitement and interest in using readily available open source technologies and prototypes.
• Passion for trading, research, and technology.

Additional Information

• Flat structure with direct executive exposure; work closely with leadership and make an impact from day one.
• Comprehensive health benefits including full health insurance coverage for employees and dependents.
• Daily meals provided; free lunch at the office.