AI Researcher (Large Language Models)
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Us
Imagine a therapist anyone can afford. A personal trainer that adapts to your schedule. A fleet of medical assistants that can give every patient the attention they need. With Tavus individuals enterprises and developers can all build AI Humans to connect understand and act with empathy at scale.
Were a Series A company backed by world-class investors including Sequoia Capital Y Combinator and Scale Venture Partners.
Be part of shaping a future where humans and machines truly understand each other.
The Role
Were looking for an AI Researcher to join our core AI team and push the boundaries of large language modeling in the context of conversational AI. If you thrive in fast-moving startup environments enjoy experimenting with new ideas and love seeing your work come to life in production then youll feel right at home.
Your Mission
Conduct research on large language modeling and adaptation for Conversational Avatars (e.g. Neural Avatars Talking-Heads).
Develop methods to model both verbal and non-verbal aspects of conversation adapting and controlling avatar behavior in real time.
Experiment with fine-tuning adaptation and conditioning techniques to make LLMs more expressive controllable and task-specific.
Partner with the Applied ML team to take research from prototype to production.
Stay up to date with cutting-edge advancements and help define what comes next.
Youll Be Great At This If You Have:
A PhD (or near completion) in a relevant field or equivalent research experience.
Hands-on experience with LLMs or VLMs and a strong foundation in generative language models.
Experience in fine-tuning/adapting LLMs for control conditioning or downstream tasks.
Solid background in deep learning and familiarity with foundation model methods.
Strong PyTorch skills and comfort building deep learning pipelines.
Nice-to-Haves
Knowledge of large-scale model training and optimization.
Broader understanding of generative AI across modalities.
Exposure to software development best practices.
A flexible experimental mindset i.e. comfortable working across research and engineering.
(Bonus) Publications at EMNLP COLING NeurIPS ICLR CVPR ICCV.
Location
Preferred: San Francisco (hybrid) or London (office opening soon).
Remote within the U.S. or Europe available for exceptional candidates.
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Intelligence Community Experience
- Python
- Spss
- Microsoft Word
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Windows
- Stata
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Data Modeling
- Writing Skills
About Company
Tavus is the leading AI video research company that enables product development teams to build white-labeled digital twin experiences with easy-to-use APIs.
