NVIDIA · 1 day ago
Senior Research Scientist, Fundamental LLM Research for Knowledge, Reasoning, and Agents
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$224K/yr - $356K/yr
6+ years expNVIDIA is searching for an outstanding researcher for their Large Language Model (LLM) research team. The role involves exploring innovative methods in LLMs, collaborating with a research team, publishing original research, and mentoring interns.
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Responsibilities
Explore alternative avenues to unlock new capabilities in language models, including advanced knowledge acquisition techniques and innovative learning and decoding algorithms
Innovate new learning paradigms that incorporate agency into the training of language models, such as enabling self-reflection and targeted knowledge enhancement
Enable learning from multi-modalities beyond written text, such as acquiring physical commonsense knowledge through interactions with real-world environments
Publish original research
Collaborate with other team members and teams
Mentor interns
Speak at conferences and events
Work with product groups to transfer technology
Collaborate with external researchers
Qualification
Required
PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent experience)
At least 6 years of research experience (demonstrated by publication records spanning across 5+ years) in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision or related subjects
A history of research success exemplified by a strong publication record and awards
Excellent knowledge of theory and practice of deep learning and natural language processing
Background in LLM training, alignment, and evaluation is expected
Excellent programming skills in Python and PyTorch
Hands-on experience with large-scale model training including data preparation and model parallelization (tensor and pipeline) is required
Excellent communications skills
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