Post-Training Engineer - Apertus

Epfl
📍 lausanne, vaud, Switzerland 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 16, 2026

Job Description

Introduction

The Apertus project, a joint effort between EPFL and ETH Zürich, is seeking a practical and motivated engineer to help build the next generation of open foundation models. The successful candidate will help develop and run post-training and reinforcement learning pipelines for the Apertus project.


Apertus is trained and developed on Alps, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre’s supercomputing infrastructure. The role requires someone who is comfortable working in an HPC environment and collaborating with researchers and infrastructure engineers.

Main duties and responsibilities

The engineer will contribute to the development, execution, and evaluation of scalable post-training workflows for Apertus.


Infrastructure and systems engineering

  • Build and maintain containerized environments for LLM post-training and RL workloads.
  • Adapt containers and dependencie...
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    Job Details

    • Location lausanne, vaud
    • Job Type Full-time
    • Category CAR
    • Posted Date June 16, 2026
    • Application Deadline July 26, 2026