Jay Rainton

Jay Rainton is a highly skilled Senior Machine Learning Engineer at SambaNova Systems since January 2022, where contributions include conducting hyperparameter searches for GPT and BERT models and integrating teacher-student distillation techniques. Previously, Rainton completed a Machine Learning Engineer internship at Salesforce and served as an AI Research Assistant at the University of California, Davis, focusing on chatbot development and neuron classification. Early career experiences include a Jr. Application Developer role at UC Davis Information and Education Technology and a Software Developer internship at eBay. Rainton holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from UC San Diego and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.