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Senior Applied Scientist

India, Telangana, Hyderabad💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and run experiments, develop ML pipelines and models for post-training foundation models, encoder-decoder models, and cross-encoder models using large-scale data.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (LLM/Foundation Models)

Builds

Scalable, reliable ML architectures for post-training foundation models

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, post-training of foundation models, experiment design, metric validation, ML pipeline development, model evaluation, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

embedding models, encoder-decoder models, cross-encoder models, publishing research

Technologies

Python

Responsibilities

Design and run experiments to validate metrics and develop ML pipelines; Partner with Engineering, PM, and Design to translate product vision into scalable architecture; Engage with customers to understand pain points and drive improvements; Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team; Define and evolve success metrics reflecting platform and product growth; Keep up with latest research to foster applied science culture

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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