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Research Scientist (LLM/SOTA/RL) - Between $200-400K base (DOE) + equity

$200k - $400k

Attis

Research Scientist (LLM/SOTA/RL), Remote, USA (Between $250-400K DOE + equity)

Research Scientists sought for a well-funded, highly successful defense AI scaleup who bring state of the art AI to the tactical edge. They are a talented team of engineers and researchers who perform the full stack of model training to improve models every day. We're looking for Research Scientists to train models, evaluate AI systems and bring world class AI to the edge.

The company is developing advanced AI systems that can operate directly at the edge, bringing high-performance AI into demanding real-world environments without relying on constant cloud connectivity. Its technology enables sophisticated models to run securely across laptops, embedded devices, robotic platforms and other hardware, with models optimized for specific applications and operational requirements.

Offering a base of between 250-400K depending on experience + generous equity, fully remote working in the US and other benefits.

Ideally you will have experience performing experimentation in one or more of the following areas:

  • Blind model adaptation
  • Vision model and multimodal training
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Large-scale data ablations
  • Pretraining and midtraining
  • Benchmark Development
  • Robotic integration of LLM's

We have a strong preference for candidates with an active clearance to work on projects related to US Space Force, DoW, DoD etc.

Key Skills

Large Language Models, LLM, Foundation Models, Generative AI, Reinforcement Learning, RLHF, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Post-Training, Pretraining, Midtraining, Fine-Tuning, Model Adaptation, Model Training, Distributed Training, Multimodal, Vision-Language Models, VLM, Vision Model Training, Machine Translation, Multilingual Models, Model Evaluation, LLM Evaluation, Benchmarking, Benchmark Development, Data Ablation, Model Distillation, Quantization, Model Compression, Robotics + LLM, Edge AI

Disclaimer:

Attis Global Ltd is an equal opportunities employer. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on any of the grounds protected by law, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, national origin, religion or belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, marital status, political affiliation, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, and/or gender reassignment. M/F/D/V. We operate as a staffing agency and employment business. More information can be found at attisglobal.com.

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