Sr. Applied Research Scientist

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THE ROLE:

We are looking for a Sr. Applied Research Scientist experienced with training large language models and/or large multimodal models. In this role, you will explore novel LLM/LMM architectures and large-scale training techniques to advance the state-of-the-arts. You will be part of a world-class research team working on pre-training, fine-tuning, and aligning large language and multimodal models, in addition to keeping up to date on the latest progress and trends in LLM/LMM and foundation models.

THE PERSON:

Do you like to design and implement novel research ideas, improve the quality of the large language and multimodal models, accelerate the training and inference speed of LLMs/LMMs, and influence future hardware and software direction? If so, this role is for you. The ideal candidate will have expertise and hands-on experience on training LLMs/LMMs, familiar with hyper-parameter tuning techniques, data preprocessing, tokenization methods and latest training approaches for LLMs/LMMs. A successful candidate needs to be knowledgeable with latest transformer architectures.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Train and finetune LLMs/LMMs.
• Improve on the state-of-the-art LLMs/LMMs.
• Accelerate the training and inference speed of LLMs/LMMs.
• Research novel ML techniques and model architectures.
• Influence the direction of AMD AI platform.
• Publish your work at top-tier venues.
• Engage with academia and open-source ML communities.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Experience in developing and debugging in Python.
• Experienced with text-to-image / text-to-video / image-to-text or video-to-text models.
• Experience in ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow.
• Experience with distributed training.
• Expertise on LLM/LMM pretraining, finetuning, and/or RLHF.
• Expertise on transformer architecture.
• Strong publication record in top tier conferences and journals.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• A PhD degree or equivalent in machine learning, computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related field.

LOCATION:

• San Jose or Seattle; other US locations may be considered.

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At AMD, your base pay is one part of your total rewards package.  Your base pay will depend on where your skills, qualifications, experience, and location fit into the hiring range for the position. You may be eligible for incentives based upon your role such as either an annual bonus or sales incentive. Many AMD employees have the opportunity to own shares of AMD stock, as well as a discount when purchasing AMD stock if voluntarily participating in AMD’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also be eligible for competitive benefits described in more detail here.

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