Staff Researcher - Post-Training LLMs for Production
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Modal is building a platform that covers the full life cycle of LLMs—from training to deployment and observability. We already run multi-node training and elastic inference, and we seek a research‑leaning post‑training specialist to join our team in San Francisco or NYC. You will own hands‑on post‑training research with the research lead, partner with customers and Forward Deployed Engineers, and explore questions like distillation from production traffic, while showing how the platform enables #J-18808-Ljbffr Mixpeek
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