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Posted 9 days ago

Senior AI R&D Engineer - Performance - Pre-training (f/m/d)

Alephalpha

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  • Salary: not listed by employer

  • Typical pay for tech professionals in Germany: around €69,000 a year Official statistics

  • Permanent residency after about 2 yrs

  • Citizenship after about 5 yrs

  • Work language: likely English (posting is in English)

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About the role

Our Mission Aleph Alpha is one of the few companies in Europe doing serious foundation model pre-training like our recently released Kolibri-1 model. Our customers - in finance, manufacturing, public administration - need models that understand German, meet European regulatory requirements, and work reliably in high-stakes settings. We're building that in Heidelberg.

We are hiring a Senior Performance Engineer to grow our pre-training efficiency team. If you are excited about making models fast and scaling them to thousands of GPUs, this is the role for you!

Team Culture At Aleph Alpha, we foster a culture built on ownership, autonomy, and empowerment. Teams and individual contributors are…

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Location Insights: Heidelberg

  • Take-home pay (Country tax)

    About €3,320 a month after tax, from typical pay for tech professionals in Germany (€69,000 a year, official statistics), not this employer's offer, using the average rate of 42.3% for a single employee on a higher salary

  • Weather (City)

    Berlin (nearest reference city): summer highs about 78°F / 26°C, winter highs about 39°F / 4°C

  • Safety (Country)

    High peacefulness (Global Peace Index rank 28)

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