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Applied Scientist - Trust and Safety (Multimodal Foundation Model) - Global Frontier Tech Recruitment Program - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Building multimodal foundation models and agentic moderation systems to protect users from negative content using state-of-the-art machine learning.

Role type

Senior IC Applied Scientist (Multimodal Foundation Models & Agentic Systems)

Builds

Large-scale MoE architecture training, RL-driven agentic decision-making systems, and multimodal safety foundation models for content moderation.

Domain

AI Safety, Content Moderation, Multimodal AI, Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PhD in CS/Data Science/AI, LLM research expertise, Python/Rust/C++ programming, deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Megatron), distributed computing, RL, MoE, PEFT

Preferred skills

Published research papers, inference tuning and acceleration, GPU/AI accelerator expertise, LLM application & agent development evaluation

Technologies

PyTorch, DeepSpeed, Megatron, vLLM, GRPO, PPO, Langchain, GraphRAG, MCP

Responsibilities

Train and optimize large-scale sparse MoE architectures for cross-modal alignment; Develop RL-driven agentic systems for multi-step reasoning and tool collaboration; Engineer context assembly and multi-source evidence fusion strategies; Ensure generalization across 200+ languages and adversarial robustness against AIGC content.

Seniority

PhD level, hands-on IC

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