Research Scientist – Decentralized Training and Inference Verification

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🌐 United States, Australia – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇦🇺 Australia – Remote

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🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧬 Research Scientist

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Pluralis Research

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1 - 10 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🌐 Web 3

Artificial Intelligence • Web 3

Pluralis Research is a foundational AI research lab focused on Protocol Learning — decentralized, multi‑participant training of foundation models where no single participant holds a full copy of the model. The group develops methods to enable communication‑efficient model and pipeline parallelism, unextractable collaborative models, and high‑compression context parallelism so community‑trained, community‑owned frontier models can scale over low‑bandwidth, internet‑connected devices. Their work targets practical systems and algorithms that make decentralized training competitive with centralized training while enabling new ownership and economic models.

📋 Description

• Enumerate and maintain the threat model for malicious or careless workers across pre-training, post-training, and inference • Assess training disruption, denial-of-service, free-riding, model poisoning, backdoors, data extraction, reputation manipulation, and reward manipulation • Build statistical verification methods with stated error rates • Tune verification tests using rigorous benchmarks • Control false positives and false negatives across heterogeneous hardware, including different GPUs and Macs • Build and operate the verification service in the inference path • Verify that tokens came from the claimed model and sampling parameters • Verify that training contributions are what they claim to be

🎯 Requirements

• Built a calibrated statistical decision system with stated error rates and lived with its mistakes • Deep expertise in statistics and probability • Ability to design experiments, calibrate decision thresholds, and defend claimed error rates • Knowledge of verifying untrusted compute, including statistical testing, re-execution, cryptographic proofs, and trusted hardware • Ability to assess what verification approaches fit a permissionless network • Belief in Protocol Learning as a viable third path for collective, trustless, and sovereign AI • Familiarity with large-scale pre-training and RL post-training • Familiarity with decentralized ML security and adversarial threat models, including poisoning, Sybil, collusion, and replay • Experience at proprietary, open-weight, and open-source AI labs • Professional-level English proficiency, written and spoken

🏖️ Benefits

• Significant equity for key technical contributors in addition to a high base salary • Flexible work environment with team members distributed globally • Optional full visa sponsorship and relocation support to either Australia or the US