Institute of Foundation Models jobs
Builds open foundation models: Sherkala for Kazakh, Russian, Turkish, and English, plus JAIS for Arabic and the K2 reasoning family. Labs in Abu Dhabi, Sunnyvale, and Paris.
Based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. 43 open roles, checked Nov 6, 2026.
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Open roles at Institute of Foundation Models
Engineering (17)
- Machine Learning Engineer — Reinforcement Learning · Sunnyvale, CA
- Machine Learning Engineer — Pre-training (LLM) · Sunnyvale, CA
- Machine Learning Engineer — GPU Kernel · Sunnyvale, CA
- AI Engineer Internship – LLM Data · Abu Dhabi
- Eval360 - Error Analysis Engineer · Sunnyvale, CA
- AI Research Internship - WM · Sunnyvale, CA
- HPC Engineer · Sunnyvale, CA
- Machine Learning Engineer – World Model · Sunnyvale, CA
- Senior MLOps Engineer · Abu Dhabi
- High Performance Computing Software Engineer - Supercomputing · Abu Dhabi
- AI Research Internship - LLM · Sunnyvale, CA
- Machine Learning Engineer – World Modeling · Abu Dhabi
- Machine Learning Engineer · Abu Dhabi
- AI Engineer – LLM Data · Abu Dhabi
- Senior Quality Assurance Engineer · Abu Dhabi
- Senior Fullstack Engineer · Abu Dhabi
- Data Engineer · Sunnyvale, CA
Operations (12)
- Workplace & Facilities Coordinator · Sunnyvale, CA
- Community Manager · Sunnyvale, CA
- Developer Relations Manager · Sunnyvale, CA
- Executive Assistant · Sunnyvale, CA
- Data & Eval Operations Program Manager · Sunnyvale, CA
- Product Marketing Manager, AI Models · Sunnyvale, CA
- Website Developer & Visual Designer · Sunnyvale, CA
- Social Media Manager · Sunnyvale, CA
- Content Marketing & Editorial, Sr. Manager · Sunnyvale, CA
- Marketing Manager, Institute of Foundation Models (IFM) · Sunnyvale, CA
- Facilities Specialist · Sunnyvale, CA
- Recruiting Partner · Sunnyvale, CA
Research (11)
- Research Scientist – World Modeling, Data · Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Scientist, Agentic Data & Benchmarking · Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Scientist - Vision Language Model · Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Scientist - Agents (Post Training) · Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Engineer/Scientist - Speech/Audio Machine Learning · Paris
- Research Scientist - Reinforcement Learning · Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Scientist - World Modeling · Abu Dhabi
- Research Scientist · Abu Dhabi
- Research Scientist - World Modeling · Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Scientist - Data · Sunnyvale, CA
- Research Scientist - NLP · Sunnyvale, CA
Product (2)
- Project Manager · Abu Dhabi
- Community Development Manager · Abu Dhabi
Strategic Projects (1)
- Associate, Strategic Projects · Abu Dhabi
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