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Member of Technical Staff, Modeling

Boson AI
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/28/2026
Boson AI is a startup building large language tools for audio understanding, generation, interaction and entertainment. Our founders, Alex Smola, Mu Li, and a team of Deep Learning, Optimization, NLP, AutoML and Statistics scientists and engineers are working on high quality generative AI models for LLM, large Audio models and beyond.

We are seeking research scientists and engineers to join our team full-time in our Santa Clara office. As part of your role, you will work on modeling and training large audio and language models, understanding and interpreting model behavior and aligning models to human values. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in machine learning, and have motivations for developing state-of-the-art models towards AGI.

Responsibilities

  • Design and verify novel model architectures and training objectives.
  • Investigate novel model alignment algorithms
  • Write efficient and clean code for ML training
  • Conduct large-scale experiments to verify the modeling choices and identify improvement areas


Experience

  • Summarize results and clearly communicate the motivations and observations in your work
  • Proficiency in at least one deep learning framework, such as PyTorch
  • Participation in at least one research project related to LLM or multimodal models, e.g. experience in training or fine-tuning them.
  • Experience in alignment research
  • Experience in large-scale distributed model training
  • Experience in writing GPU kernels in CUDA


Qualifications

  • PhD or Master's degree with solid scientific contributions
  • Active GitHub repository
  • Active scientific track record
  • Excellent problem-solving skills


We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Total compensations includes base pay, equity, and benefits. We have a 401k plan, HSA, FSA, free food (even dried mangoes).

Salary : $150,000 - $600,000

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