Work part-time or full-time during the year with the core Sentient Research team
Conduct cutting-edge generative AI research in a fast-paced environment
Design new agent architectures to improve end-to-end performance of AI workflows
Design, run, and evaluate experiments to improve LLMs on various benchmarks
Execute data engineering tasks to curate data for LLM pre-training, fine-tuning, RAG
Integrate and evaluate models with multi-modal capabilities for different verticals
Read conference papers on generative AI and knowledge retrieval to understand and evaluate new research in the space
Replicate, evaluate, and integrate theoretical data-curation approaches, fine-tuning algorithms, and agent architectures from research papers into real products
Set up fine-tuning and evaluation pipelines on AWS, GCP, and other compute providers
Manage AI workload compute resources and monitoring, keeping track of experiments and assessing results
Required Qualifications
Hands-on experience in generative AI research and/or engineering, whether in industry or through academic work during the Bachelor’s / Master’s / PhD degree with corresponding published work
Demonstrated expertise in deep learning and transformer models
Mastery of Python (PyTorch, numpy, agentic frameworks) for building AI workflows, fine-tuning models, and writing evaluations
Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles
Familiarity with methods for training LLMs (distillation, supervised fine-tuning, policy optimization)
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proactive approach to challenges
Benefits
Competitive salary
Flexible PTO and WFH policy
Top-of-the-line engineers and technology
Opportunity to shape the direction of a pioneering open AI platform
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