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Company Description
At Databricks we are obsessed with enabling data teams to solve the worlds toughest problems from security threat detection to cancer drug development. We do this by building and running the worlds best data and AI platform so our customers can focus on the high value challenges that are central to their own missions.
The Mosaic AI organization enables companies to develop AI models and systems using their own data with technologies ranging from pretraining LLMs from scratch to augmented generation using the latest retrieval techniques. Mosaic AI does so by producing novel science and putting it into production. Mosaic AI is committed to the belief that a companys AI models are just as valuable as any other core IP and that highquality AI models should be available to all.
Job Description
As a Research Scientist on the Mosaic AI Team at Databricks you will be responsible for keeping up with the latest developments in deep learning and advancing the scientific frontier by creating new techniques that go beyond the state of the art. You will work together on a collaborative team of researchers with diverse backgrounds and technical training. And most importantly you will love our customers: our goal is to make our customers successful in applying stateoftheart LLMs and AI systems and we encode our scientific expertise into our products to make that possible.
You might be a good fit if you
- Have 2 years of full time experience in an industry research lab or equivalent academic experience.
- Have produced novel research related to topics of practical importance in contemporary AI such as training generative AI models like LLMs and texttoimage models improving upon pretrained models evaluating these models etc.
- Have specialized expertise in topics like finetuning RLHF LLM tooluse etc.
- Are comfortable working with largescale LLMs in the 10s to 100s of billions of parameters.
- Have strong foundations in software engineering and empirical research.
- Are passionate about getting your work into the hands of real users and more broadly democratizing access to modern AI technology.
- Have strong communication skills and a desire to work on a small fastpaced team.
A PhD is NOT required for this role. We are open to hiring candidates with bachelors and masters degrees and to new graduates. We are open to hiring candidates who are currently in research engineer roles at other companies.
Your Responsibilities
- Keeping up to date with the research literature and thinking beyond the state of the art to address the needs of our users.
- Developing and implementing methods that improve training efficiency and extend or improve model capabilities reliability and safety.
Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full-Time
