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We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.\nWe are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.\nRole Summary\nAs a Research Engineer on the software side, you will design and harden the codebase, tools and distributed services that let our scientists train and ship frontier-scale models. You do not need prior ML experience; what matters is writing clean, reliable code that scales.\nYou will join our Research Software Engineering team to build and maintain shared dev-tools, evaluation & data pipelines, training framework, cluster tooling and CI/CD.\nLocation: Paris / Warsaw / Zurich / London (hybrid) or remote EU/UK with one hub visit per month.\nWhat will you do\nAccelerate researchers by owning the complex parts of large-scale pipelines and delivering robust internal tooling.\nInterface research with product: expose clean APIs, automate model pushes, surface live metrics.\nWrite efficient, well-tested Python and systems code; enforce code review, CI, and observability.\nDesign and optimise distributed services (Kubernetes / SLURM, thousands-of-GPU jobs).\nPrototype utilities (CLI, dashboards) and carry them through to stable, shared libraries.\nAbout the Research Engineering team\nBased in Paris and London, our REs move fluidly along the research ↔ production spectrum. 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