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Senior Applied Scientist

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Research and productionize advanced ML/LLM systems for autonomous AI agents that plan, reason, and execute complex tasks.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (Reinforcement Learning & LLMs)

Builds

Autonomous AI agents, large-scale training/inference pipelines, and production ML systems

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning, LLM training and fine-tuning, Python, PyTorch, distributed/multi-GPU training, model optimization (distillation/quantization), NLU/NLG, experimental design

Preferred skills

Rust, synthetic data generation, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), speech-to-text (STT), software architecture

Technologies

Python, Rust, PyTorch, ONNX

Responsibilities

Research, prototype, train, evaluate, and deploy advanced ML and LLM systems; Develop and apply state-of-the-art RL techniques including RLHF; Design large-scale training and evaluation datasets; Build high-performance multi-GPU training and inference pipelines; Build robust, scalable production ML systems and write high-quality code; Advance natural-language and speech capabilities; Translate novel academic research into practical capabilities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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