Ifm Us
Research Scientist
Sunnyvale, CA
H1B sponsorship available$150k-$450kDetected 446 days ago
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About the role
- As a Research Scientist with a focus on data-centric large language model (LLM) development, your role will center on advancing the frontiers of how LLMs reason, retrieve, and interact with external information sources.
- Your work will have a direct impact on the performance and reliability of intelligent systems at MBZUAI IFM.
Responsibilities
- Lead research and implementation of reasoning-enhanced LLM capabilities through novel data collection, architecture design, and system integration.
- Design and implement pipelines to collect, curate, and structure open-source and web-scale data relevant to reasoning tasks, ensuring scalability and reproducibility.
- Build robust software to support fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment of LLMs that interact with structured and unstructured knowledge bases.
- Collaborate with ML researchers to create, test, and evaluate new approaches in information retrieval, agentic search, and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines.
- Rapidly prototype tools, APIs, and infrastructure for enabling LLMs to reason over external information, and build datasets for identifying and analyzing LLM failure modes.
- Communicate research findings in internal documents and external publications (e.g., top-tier conferences like ACL, ICLR, NeurIPS).
- Contribute to design/code reviews and foster engineering best practices in a high-performance research environment.
- Perform all other duties as reasonably directed by the line manager that are commensurate with these functional objectives.
- Background in building complex knowledge retrieval systems (e.g., knowledge graphs, semantic search, indexing).
- Familiarity with performance constraints in production environments and the trade-offs in model and data design.
Requirements
- Master's in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience required.
Nice to have
- Preferred Professional Experience
Compensation
- $150k-$450k
Benefits
- Include *Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits *Bonus *401K Plan *Generous paid time off, sick leave and holidays *Paid Parental Leave *Employee Assistance Program *Life insurance and disability
- PhD or equivalent research experience in Machine Learning, NLP, or Data Science with a focus on reasoning and LLMs preferred.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is eligible for visa sponsorship.
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