Ifm Us

Ifm Us

Research Engineer - The Diffusion LLM Team

Sunnyvale, CA

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$400kDetected 85 days ago
Machine LearningDeep LearningNLPLLMsResearchProblem Solving

About the role

  • About the Institute of Foundation Models
  • We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy.

Responsibilities

  • Design, train, and scale large language models for research and real-world deployment.
  • Lead or contribute to the release of industrial-scale diffusion language models.
  • Develop and evaluate training strategies and objectives for efficient model scaling.
  • First, we develop and release diffusion-based LLMs that push the speed-quality frontier at scale by matching autoregressive model quality while enabling faster generation.

Nice to have

  • About the Institute of Foundation Models
  • You will participate in the development of groundbreaking AI solutions that have the potential to reshape entire industries.
  • Our team has two core missions.
  • Second, we improve inference-time scaling relative to standard LLMs, so that additional test-time compute translates into higher-quality samples.
  • You will work closely with researchers and engineers across architecture, training, and infrastructure to turn research ideas into high-impact model releases for next-generation LLMs.
  • Publish research findings and contribute to open-source model and code releases.
  • Academic Qualifications
  • Professional Experience

Compensation

  • $150k-$400k

Benefits

  • MSc or PhD in Machine Learning or Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience.
  • Hands-on experience training large models using modern deep learning frameworks at scale.

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