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Music is much more than listening… it's about creating, sharing, discovering, participating, and connecting with people. With dozens of millions of monthly active users creating over 20 million songs every day, Smule is connecting people all over the world through the joy of making music and transforming the music landscape from one of passive listening to collaborative creative expression and active engagement.\nAbout the RoleWe are hiring a Research Engineer to accelerate Smule's research teams by building the infrastructure, tooling, and experimental frameworks that make rigorous research possible at scale. You will work side-by-side with research scientists, turning experimental ideas into robust, reproducible code and helping bridge the gap between prototype and production. The ideal candidate is a skilled software engineer with genuine curiosity about ML research, deep systems knowledge, and a talent for making researchers more productive.\nWe strongly encourage candidates with non-traditional backgrounds to apply. If your path into research engineering came through audio software development, game engine programming, embedded systems, HPC, or another field, we want to hear from you.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nDesign, implement, and maintain research infrastructure including experiment tracking, distributed training pipelines, and evaluation frameworks.\n\nCollaborate with research scientists to implement, debug, and optimize novel model architectures, training procedures, and data pipelines.\n\nBuild tooling and abstractions that accelerate the experiment-iterate-publish cycle for the research team.\n\nEnsure reproducibility of research results through rigorous version control of code, data, configurations, and compute environments.\n\nProfile and optimize training and inference performance across GPU clusters, identifying and resolving bottlenecks.\n\nContribute to open-source projects and internal libraries that codify best practices and reusable components.\n\nWhat We're Looking For:\nDegree (B.S., M.S., or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or currently pursuing one.\n\nStrong proficiency in Python and experience with PyTorch, including custom modules, training loops, and distributed training (DDP, FSDP).\n\nSolid understanding of software engineering best practices: testing, CI/CD, code review, and documentation.\n\nFamiliarity with Linux, GPU computing, and cloud or on-prem HPC environments.\n\nAbility to read and implement methods from ML research papers.\n\nBonus Points For:\nExperience with audio, speech, or music signal processing pipelines.\n\nFamiliarity with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Slurm).\n\nContributions to open-source ML frameworks or research codebases.\n\nSmule is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law.\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. 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