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Principal Applied Scientist

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build platforms and pipelines to enable large language models post-training, design experiments to show effectiveness, and implement inference solutions for customers.

Role type

Principal Applied Scientist (LLM Post-Training & Inference)

Builds

Platforms, pipelines, and inference solutions incorporating post-trained LLMs

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

LLM post-training, experiment design, inference solution implementation, production system deployment, research program leadership, technical documentation, team mentorship

Preferred skills

Conference speaking, full product lifecycle management

Technologies

Large Language Models, Post-training pipelines, Inference frameworks

Responsibilities

Design and build platforms and pipelines for LLM post-training; Design experiments to demonstrate LLM solution effectiveness; Implement inference solutions following product specifications; Mentor early in career team members

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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