Research Engineer, Foundation Model

Prior Labs | Berlin / Freiburg / NYC | ONSITE | Full-time | Multiple Roles Tables power every clinical trial, financial model, and scientific experiment, but deep learning has mostly ignored them. No natural sequence, no spatial structure, no shared vocabulary across datasets. LLM architectures don't transfer. We built TabPFN, the first foundation model that actually understands tabular data (published in Nature, 3M+ downloads, new SOTA for tabular ML). The hardest problems are still open. The model is half the product. The other half - training infrastructure, real-time serving, developer platform, reliability - is what turns a research breakthrough into something enterprises trust in production. We're hiring across both. - ML Engineer, Training Infrastructure — Own GPU infrastructure, distributed training performance, and the developer productivity layer (CI, experiment tracking, model registry) that keeps research moving fast. - Full Stack Engineer, ML Platform — Build the product that puts tabular foundation models in users' hands, from data upload through inference and results. You'll work across frontend, backend, and directly with the research team to turn new model capabilities into production features. - Research Engineer, Foundation Model — Design experiments, run ablations, build training infrastructure, contribute to papers. Research engineers here aren't supporting scientists — they are the science team. - ML Engineer, Cloud Platform — Design and scale the core infrastructure for serving and finetuning foundation models in production. Early enough that you're making the architecture decisions, not inheriting them. Also hiring: Research Scientist, Applied Scientist, Forward Deployed ML Engineer, Developer Relations Engineer, AE, BDR. 20-person team selected from thousands applicants. Backgrounds from Jane Street, Google, CERN, G-Research. Led by Frank Hutter, advised by Yann LeCun and Bernhard Schölkopf. With backing from leaders at Hugging Face, DeepMind, and Black Forest Labs, XTX Ventures & Balderton. All roles: https://jobs.priorlabs.ai