Curriculum vitae

Jannes Gladrow

ML engineer building models and systems for AI, with earlier work across physics, optical computing for drastic FLOPs/W improvements in AI inference, and stochastic thermodynamics.

Experience

Oct 2025 to present

ML Engineer

Meta AI, London

Working on post-training, agentic harnesses, AI product experiences, and ML systems for frontier models.

Sep 2020 to Oct 2025

Machine Learning Researcher

Microsoft Research Cambridge

Research engineering on ML systems, infrastructure, and model work.

Sep 2019 to Sep 2020

AI Resident

Microsoft Research Cambridge

Worked on a customer-facing recommendation system based on NLP, alongside physics and computer-vision research projects.

Oct 2015 to Sep 2019

PhD Student

University of Cambridge

PhD in stochastic thermodynamics, optical tweezers, and machine learning, supported by Winton and Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarships.

Jun 2015 to Sep 2015

R&D Intern

nanoTemper Technologies, Munich

Rapid prototyping of measurement devices for protein characterisation.

Aug 2011 to Oct 2011

Research Intern

Penn State University

Developed LEED correction algorithms in Python.

Education

2013 to 2015

MSc Physics

Georg-August University Göttingen

Minor in computer science. Thesis in non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

2012 to 2013

Exchange year

École Normale Supérieure, Paris

M1 ICFP, including a six-month programming internship at Institut Curie.

2009 to 2012

BSc Physics

Georg-August University Göttingen

Minor in computer science. Thesis in theoretical neuroscience.

Selected publications