Research Scientist - Data (Hayward)

Research Scientist - Data focus

💊 Foundation Models, AI Research Institute

🌎 San Francisco Bay Area, USA

💸 $200,000 - $350,000 salary + bonus

Come join a revolutionary AI research lab in SF Bay Area that is poised to develop & publish high-impact breakthroughs in GenAI - across LLMs and Multimodal AI.

As part of the team, youll work at the intersection of data, large-scale training, and foundation model innovation. You will collaborate with world-class researchers, data scientists, and engineers to solve critical challenges in creating robust, scalable, and reasoning-capable LLMs. Your research will shape the way data is curated, processed, and leveraged to train the next generation of intelligent systems.

Responsibilities :

• Lead research on data-centric approaches for LLMs , including pretraining corpus design, data valuation, and speculative decoding strategies.
• Develop pipelines to process challenging data sources into structured and reproducible training datasets.
• Build and optimize agentic data pipelines , integrating retrieval, self-curation, and multi-agent feedback for high-quality training and evaluation data.
• Collaborate with researchers on alignment and reasoning-focused training that leverage data-driven approaches for improving LLM capabilities.
• Prototype and deploy evaluation frameworks to measure data quality, coverage, and downstream impact on LLM reasoning.
• Publish findings at top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP) and represent the institute at international conferences.
• Contribute to open-source tools, datasets, and benchmarks that advance the global foundation model research community.

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🌎 San Francisco Bay Area, USA

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