Aldea

Research Engineer

• Build and maintain distributed training infrastructure supporting researchers across language and speech domains at a billion-plus-parameter scale.
• Optimize training and inference performance across the stack, delivering significant speedups through framework optimization, custom kernels, and system-level improvements.
• Design experiment infrastructure including automated evaluation pipelines, experiment tracking, and monitoring systems that enable rapid iteration.
• Scale infrastructure from single-node to multi-node distributed training and deploy production inference systems for real-time applications.
• Support researchers with fast turnaround on infrastructure issues and maintain high reliability across all systems.
• Collaborate with research scientists, data engineers, and leadership to define technical priorities and infrastructure roadmap.

Research Engineer – Machine Learning

Infrastructure Engineer

• Architect a unified platform spanning AWS and Bare Metal Kubernetes.
• Contribute to building our stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Loki) for monitoring EKS and bare metal.
• Build and manage a fleet of self-hosted runners to control costs and accelerate feedback loops.
• Lead design reviews and drive platform roadmaps.

Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid Cloud, Platform

Product Manager

• Partner with the Head of Research to define research priorities, timelines, and success metrics across voice AI and LLM initiatives.
• Translate ambiguous research ideas into structured workstreams with clear hypotheses, milestones, and dependencies.
• Manage and continuously refine the research roadmap—balancing long-term scientific goals with short-term product impact.
• Facilitate collaboration between research, engineering, and product teams to ensure findings are transferable, reproducible, and production-ready.
• Track progress, synthesize insights, and communicate outcomes and implications to leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Create processes and frameworks for research intake, documentation, and evaluation to support scaling the research team.
• Identify opportunities to align research investments with customer needs and commercial applications.

Research Product Manager

Research Scientist

• Research and prototype sub-quadratic attention architectures to unlock efficient scaling of large language models.
• Design and evaluate efficient attention mechanisms including state-space models (e.g., Mamba), linear attention variants, and sparse attention patterns.
• Lead pre-training initiatives across a range of model scales from 1B to 100B+ parameters.
• Conduct rigorous experiments measuring the efficiency, performance, and scaling characteristics of novel architectures.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to integrate models into production systems.
• Stay at the forefront of foundational research and help shape Aldea's long-term model roadmap.

Senior Research Scientist, LLMs

AI Research Scientist

• Multi-Environment Kubernetes Architecture - Manage 5 distinct environments (NMS, Sandbox, Development, Staging, Production) with different security requirements and design redundancy/failover mechanisms
• Infrastructure as Code Excellence - Develop and maintain Pulumi-based infrastructure using Python, managing complex cross-environment dependencies and VPC peering relationships
• Zero-Trust Security Implementation - Implement certificate-based VPN access with internal DNS resolution, configure WAF/security groups, and manage HashiCorp Vault integration
• Comprehensive Observability - Deploy and configure Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, and CloudWatch with unified monitoring across distributed infrastructure
• API Platform Management - Deploy and maintain centralized API managing all environments from NMS hub, implementing automation for training jobs and inference optimization

Research Engineer – Machine Learning

Infrastructure Engineer – Hybrid Cloud, Platform

Research Product Manager

Senior Research Scientist, LLMs

Foundational AI Researcher