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Senior Research Engineer/Scientist

Hyderabad, Telangana, in💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-25

Core

Own LLM mid-training and post-training research, prototype novel agentic architectures, and design evaluation methodologies for agent reasoning and planning.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer/Scientist (LLM & Agentic AI)

Builds

Novel agentic architectures, research harnesses, and evaluation benchmarks for LLM agents.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Agentic Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

LLM training and post-training (continued pretraining, SFT, preference optimization, RL), agentic AI (planning, reasoning, memory, tool use, retrieval), Python, PyTorch, evaluation methodology design, research project ownership

Preferred skills

Experience modifying models and training pipelines, translating research to production, publishing/patenting

Technologies

PyTorch, Python

Responsibilities

Make data-mixture and experimental decisions for LLM training, design and build research harnesses for systematic experimentation, define evaluation methodologies and develop novel benchmarks, identify model failure patterns and translate insights into improvements, drive projects from hypothesis to validated prototype

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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