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Abacus.AI · 3 weeks ago

Research Engineer - Generative AI

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level

Abacus.AI is a leading Generative AI company building a future where AI assists and automates most work and business processes for enterprises and professionals. They are seeking a highly effective Research Engineer to improve LLM Agentic behavior and contribute to the development of open weight finetunes and post training efforts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
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Responsibilities

Help build open weight finetunes / post training in this area
Work autonomously and have a strong sense of ownership
Read, understand and apply new papers in the field
Use LLMs in non trivial ways to do eval, synthetic data generation

Qualification

LLM finetuningPythonUnixTensor programmingGPU programmingAutonomous workReading research papersSynthetic data generation

Required

Be highly skilled and effective engineer
Have a CS degree from a top ranked undergraduate program
Be able to work autonomously and have a strong sense of ownership
Have experience with LLM finetuning
Have strong Python and Unix skills
Can read, understand and apply new papers in the field
Be comfortable using LLMs in non trivial ways to do eval, synthetic data generation

Preferred

Ph.D./MS a plus
Possibly have low level tensor / GPU programming skills
We have a slight preference for people who live in San Francisco

Company

Abacus.AI

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Abacus.AI is the world's first AI-assisted data science and end-to-end MLOps platform
dateFounded in 2019
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://abacus.ai/

H1B Sponsorship

Abacus.AI has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (2)
2024 (4)
2023 (5)
2022 (6)
2021 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$90.25M
Key Investors
Tiger Global ManagementCoatueIndex Ventures
2021-10-27Series C· $50M
2020-11-18Series B· $22M
2020-07-14Series A· $13M

Leadership Team

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Bindu Reddy
CEO and Co-Founder
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Arvind Sundararajan
CTO & Co-Founder
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