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NeurIPS 2025 Career Opportunities

Here we highlight career opportunities submitted by our Exhibitors, and other top industry, academic, and non-profit leaders. We would like to thank each of our exhibitors for supporting NeurIPS 2025.

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BigHat is hiring ML interns for summer 2026! We've got an awesome high-throughput wetlab that pumps proprietary data into custom data and ML Ops infra to power our weekly design-build-train loop. Come solve hard-enough-to-be-fun problems in protein engineering in service of helping patients!

San Francisco


We are seeking a talented software engineer with generative AI experience who is deeply proficient with python and typescript to join our dynamic and growing team at Writer. As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a crucial role in building the genAI software. Your primary focus will be on developing a state-of-the-art platform that harnesses generative AI technologies and you will deliver seamless and scalable solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain features that enhance the user experience, drive product growth, establish best practices, and integrate cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Your responsibilities

  • Design and develop robust and scalable generative AI services using Python and open source frameworks such as Writer Agent Builder, LangChain, and n8n.
  • Implement responsive and user-friendly frontend interfaces, leveraging technologies like React, TypeScript, and modern web frameworks.
  • Work with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure to deploy and scale applications.
  • Develop and integrate high-performance, low-latency APIs for AI-driven features.
  • Ensure code quality through testing, peer reviews, and continuous integration.
  • Collaborate with the team to build, and maintain generative AI agents.
  • Participate in architectural design discussions and promote engineering best practices.
  • Continuously improve the application’s performance, scalability, and maintainability.

Is This You?

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering at expert level with Python
  • Experience building web applications using FastAPI and Asyncio
  • Experience building with generative AI applications in production environments.
  • Expertise with microservices architecture and RESTful APIs.
  • Solid understanding of database technologies such as PostgreSQL and vector databases as Elastic, Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.) and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with MCP, devtools, AI agents, or contributed to open source
  • You are committed to writing clean, maintainable, and scalable code, following best practices in software development.
  • You enjoy solving complex problems and continuously improving the performance and scalability of systems.
  • You thrive in collaborative environments, working closely with cross-functional teams to build impactful features.
  • Proven ability to help teams adopt technical best practices.

AI Platform Engineer

Location: Boston (US) / Barcelona (Spain)

Position Overview

As an AI Platform Engineer, you are the bridge between AI research and production software. You will:

  • Build and maintain AI infrastructure: model serving, vector databases, embedding pipelines
  • Enable AI developers to deploy their work reproducibly and safely
  • Design APIs for AI inference, prompt management, and evaluation
  • Implement MLOps pipelines: versioning, monitoring, logging, experimentation tracking
  • Optimize performance: latency, cost, throughput, reliability
  • Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate AI capabilities into the product

Key Responsibilities

AI Infrastructure

  • Deploy and serve LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, fine-tuned models)
  • Optimize inference latency and costs
  • Implement caching, rate limiting, and retry strategies

MLOps & Pipelines

  • Version models, prompts, datasets, and evaluation results
  • Implement experiment tracking (Weights & Biases)
  • Build CI/CD pipelines for model deployment
  • Monitor model performance and drift
  • Set up logging and observability for AI services

API Development

  • Design and implement APIs (FastAPI)
  • Create endpoints for prompt testing, model selection, and evaluation
  • Integrate AI services with backend application
  • Ensure API reliability, security, and performance

Collaboration & Enablement

  • Work with AI Developers to productionize their experiments regarding improving user workflows
  • Define workflows: notebook/test repository → PR → staging → production
  • Document AI infrastructure and best practices
  • Review code and mentor AI developers on software practices

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience (Python preferred)
  • Experience with LLMs and AI/ML in production: OpenAI API, HuggingFace, LangChain, or similar
  • Understanding of vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate, FAISS)
  • Cloud infrastructure experience: GCP (Vertex AI preferred) or AWS (SageMaker)
  • API development: FastAPI, REST, async programming
  • CI/CD and DevOps: Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions
  • Monitoring and observability
  • Problem-solving mindset: comfortable debugging complex distributed systems
  • Operating experience with AI deployment in enterprise environment

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience fine-tuning or training models
  • Familiarity with LangChain, Pydantic AI or similar frameworks
  • Knowledge of prompt engineering and evaluation techniques
  • Experience with real-time inference and streaming responses
  • Background in data engineering or ML engineering
  • Understanding of RAG architectures
  • Contributions to open-source AI/ML projects

Tech Stack

Current Stack:

  • Languages: Python (primary), Bash
  • AI/ML: OpenAI API, Anthropic, HuggingFace, LangChain, Pydantic AI
  • Vector DBs: Pinecone, Chroma, Weaviate, or FAISS
  • Backend: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic
  • Cloud: GCP (Vertex AI, Cloud Run), Terraform
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions
  • Experiment Tracking: MLflow, Weights & Biases, or custom
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (optional)

What we offer:

Competitive compensation

Stock Options Plan: Empowering you to share in our success and growth.
Cutting-Edge Tools: Access to state-of-the-art tools and collaborative opportunities with leading experts in artificial intelligence, physics, hardware and electronic design automation.
Work-Life Balance: Flexible work arrangements in one of our offices with potential options for remote work.
Professional Growth: Opportunities to attend industry conferences, present research findings, and engage with the global AI research community.
Impact-Driven Culture: Join a passionate team focused on solving some of the most challenging problems at the intersection of AI and hardware.

San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US; Remote, US


About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

Pinterest helps Pinners discover and do what they love. Homefeed is literally the first surface Pinners see when they open the app and so it forms the front-and-center of the Pinterest experience for 400M+ pinners every month. The Homefeed Relevance team’s mission is to recommend inspiring & engaging pins for all our Pinners. We are looking for a Tech Lead Architect who can drive cross-team engineering efforts for shipping ML-driven product experiences to our pinners. You'll have the opportunity to work on various innovative projects of new product experiences, build large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and deliver great impact to our pinners and business metrics.


What you'll do:

  • Improve relevance and the user experience on Homefeed.
  • Work on state-of-the-art large-scale applied machine learning projects.
  • Improve the efficiency and reliability of large-scale data processing and ML inference pipeline.
  • Improve our engineering systems to improve the latency, capacity, stability and reduce infra cost.

What we're looking for:

  • Languages: Python, Java.
  • Machine Learning: PyTorch, TensorFlow.
  • Big data processing: Spark, Hive, MapReduce.
  • 7+ years’ experience with recommender systems or user modeling, implementing production ML systems at scale.
  • 7+ years’ experience with large-scale distributed backend services.
  • Experience working with deep learning and generative AI models.
  • Experience closely collaborating with product managers/designers to ship ML-driven user-facing products.
  • Bachelor’s in computer science or equivalent experience.

Location USA, CA, Sunnyvale USA, WA, Seattle


Description Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.

Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.

As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.

We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!

We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide.

Abu Dhabi, UAE


The Department of Machine Learning at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has faculty openings at all ranks (full/associate/assistant professors). Qualified candidates are invited to apply. Applicants are expected to conduct outstanding research and be committed to teaching. Successful applicants will be provided an attractive remuneration package and allocated generous research funding for each year. Long-term research on big problems is particularly encouraged.

More details about the positions and the submission are available at https://apply.interfolio.com/176242

Those attending NeurIPS are welcome to talk to us to learn more about the university and the positions.

Contact: Chih-Jen Lin (chihjen.lin@mbzuai.ac.ae)

Handshake is building the career network for the AI economy. Our three-sided marketplace connects 18 million students and alumni, 1,500+ academic institutions across the U.S. and Europe, and 1 million employers to power how the next generation explores careers, builds skills, and gets hired.

Handshake AI is a human data labeling business that leverages the scale of the largest early career network. We work directly with the world’s leading AI research labs to build a new generation of human data products. From PhDs in physics to undergrads fluent in LLMs, Handshake AI is the trusted partner for domain-specific data and evaluation at scale. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing team shaping the future of AI through better data, better tools, and better systems—for experts, by experts.

Now’s a great time to join Handshake. Here’s why: Leading the AI Career Revolution: Be part of the team redefining work in the AI economy for millions worldwide. Proven Market Demand: Deep employer partnerships across Fortune 500s and the world’s leading AI research labs. World-Class Team: Leadership from Scale AI, Meta, xAI, Notion, Coinbase, and Palantir, just to name a few. Capitalized & Scaling: $3.5B valuation from top investors including Kleiner Perkins, True Ventures, Notable Capital, and more.

About the Role We’re expanding our team and seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the development of high-impact products that empower our Fellows in driving AI innovation. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing space, working directly with leading AI labs and tech companies to develop solutions that enhance research workflows, model evaluation processes, and domain-specific AI applications. We’re expanding our team and seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Annotations Team, responsible for building and maintaining the tools that power our data creation pipeline. This team develops products used by operators and fellows to create data used by researchers to train the latest, state of the art language models. As an Engineering Manager, you'll play a key role in shaping technical direction, fostering engineering excellence, and ensuring your team delivers reliable, scalable, and user-centric solutions. You’ll manage a talented group of engineers focused on improving workflow efficiency, quality assurance, and scalability across annotation systems. This is a highly cross-functional role that sits at the intersection of engineering, operations, and product, ensuring our data creation platform is robust, intuitive, and ready to meet evolving research needs.

Location: San Francisco, CA| 5 days/week in-office Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, inclusion, and technical excellence. Partner with product and design teams to define roadmaps, scope projects, and deliver end-to-end solutions aligned with user needs. Drive technical architecture and decision-making, ensuring systems are scalable, maintainable, and performant. Mentor engineers across experience levels, supporting their growth through regular feedback, coaching, and development opportunities. Oversee day-to-day execution, ensuring high-quality code, effective reviews, and healthy team velocity.

Desired Capabilities 2–4+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role (team lead, tech lead, or manager), in addition to prior experience as a hands-on engineer. Strong technical background in full-stack development, particularly with ReactJS, TypeScript, and backend technologies like Node.js or Python. Experience leading teams building end-user products with a focus on quality, usability, and performance. Solid understanding of system architecture, relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP). Proven track record of successfully shaping product direction and delivering results in a fast-paced environment. Excellent communication skills

Hong Kong


Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join our Hong Kong office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.

As a Senior Research Engineer, you will be responsible for helping to lead the development of our trading model research framework and using it to conduct research to develop models for trading in production. You'll expand the framework to become global standard way of training, consuming, combining, and transforming any data source in a data-driven systematic way. You will then partner with Quantitative Researchers to build the trading models themselves.

What You Will Do

  • Help to lead the development and global rollout of our research framework for defining and training models through various optimization procedures (supervised learning, backtesting etc.), as well as its integration with our platform for deploying and running those models in production
  • Partner with Quantitative Researchers to conduct research: test hypotheses and tune/develop data-driven systematic trading strategies and alpha signals

What You Need to Succeed

  • Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science or similar
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience MLOps, Research Engineering, or ML Research
  • A strong background in mathematics and statistics
  • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, with experience in libraries like numpy, pytorch, polars, pandas, and ray.
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing end-to-end machine learning pipelines, including data preprocessing, model training, deployment, and monitoring
  • Understanding of and experience with modern software development practices and tools (e.g. Agile, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
  • Understanding of cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e. g., Docker, Kubernetes)

San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US; Remote, US


About Pinterest:

Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.

Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.

Pinterest helps Pinners discover and do what they love. Core Engineering touches every surface the Pinner sees across the app and forms the front-and-center of the Pinterest experience for 500M+ Pinners every month. The Core team’s mission is to recommend inspiring & engaging pins for all our Pinners. We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer Engineering Manager II who can drive the team’s technical direction, strategic planning and execution. You'll have the opportunity to lead a team that works cross-team on various innovative projects of new product experiences, builds large-scale low-latency systems and state-of-the-art machine learning models, and delivers great impact to our pinners and business metrics.


What you’ll do:

  • Be responsible for major areas of search, recommendations, notifications, etc. for more than 500 million monthly active Pinterest users. Potential areas of impact include ML-based retrieval, multi-domain ranking, L1 modeling, candidate generators, sequence modeling, relevance modeling, and infrastructure efficiency and scalability.
  • Deeply understand the Pinterest product and drive the vision for the team, ensuring the team’s work directly contributes to the company’s goals.
  • Manage and mentor a team of Machine Learning engineers (L13–L16), providing technical guidance and support to help them grow their careers. Identify team needs and hire strong candidates.
  • Collaborate closely with other engineering teams at Pinterest to enhance the experience for users, including Advanced Technology Group, Infrastructure, Content Understanding and User Understanding.
  • Provide visibility to senior leadership regarding the team’s global impact.
  • Partner with stakeholders across the company, including product management, data scientists, and design, to shape the future of the content ecosystem and personalization at Pinterest.
  • Build a culture of excellence and expertise within the team.

What we’re looking for:

  • Degree in Computer Science, ML, NLP, Statistics, Information Sciences, related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience leading and working on a large-scale production recommendation, e-commerce, search or ads system that is based on state-of-the-art machine learning and big data technology.
  • Strong experience in related fields such as recommendation systems and applied machine learning is required; natural language processing and computer vision are a bonus.
  • Demonstrated ability to define and drive the strategic roadmap for scalable, production-quality systems from concept to execution.
  • Strong focus on product impact and user experience within a consumer-focused environment.
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience managing a high-performing machine learning engineering team.
  • 8+ years of experience in software development, with a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Location: New York, NY

The Liu Lab in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Our lab develops interpretable artificial intelligence frameworks that integrate digital health data (e.g., wearable sensor time-series), genomics, and electronic health records to advance discovery in complex neurological and psychiatric disorders, including depression, ADHD, Parkinson’s disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.

The postdoc will contribute to projects involving large-scale digital phenotyping, multimodal data integration, advanced time-series modeling, and AI-driven identification of biological and clinical markers of disease risk, progression, and treatment response.

Interested applicants may email their CV to contact@liujlab.org.


Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement AI/ML models for high-dimensional time-series, genomic, and clinical data
  • Perform data preprocessing, analysis, and multimodal integration
  • Develop interpretable and explainable ML methods for biomedical applications
  • Build computational pipelines, reproducible workflows, and internal tools
  • Prepare manuscripts, figures, and visualizations for publications and presentations
  • Collaborate with faculty, clinicians, and researchers across Mount Sinai
  • Participate in lab meetings, seminars, workshops, and collaborative projects

Required Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Biomedical Data Science, Neuroscience, or a related quantitative field
  • Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, R)
  • Background in machine learning, deep learning, statistical modeling, or related areas
  • Experience working with large datasets and computational tools
  • Strong written and oral communication skills

Preferred Experience

  • Demonstrated experience in AI/ML, data science, or computational biology
  • Experience with time-series modeling, genomics, digital health, or multimodal data (preferred but not required)