Research Engineer - Decentralized Training and Inference Verification at Pluralis Research
- Company: Pluralis Research
- Location: Remote / San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-08-31
About the role
Pluralis Research works on Protocol Learning: training and serving large models in a fully decentralized way on small consumer-grade devices connected via the internet. Despite being dismissed as infeasible, we have made significant advances on this problem, most recently Agora, a permissionless run that pretrained an 8B model from scratch on consumer GPUs spread over the internet, with no single participant ever holding the full weights (tech report https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13332). While many of the core research problems have been solved, Protocol Learning unlocks a series of new challenges. For the mission in full, read A Third Path: Protocol Learning https://pluralis.ai/blog/a-third-path-protocol-learning/. Our training and inference network is trustless, and the workers are GPUs scattered across the world. Many things can go wrong in this system.…
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