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Applied Researcher 4 (AI Foundations - LLM, Optimization and Finetuning)

New York, NY, US💼 Full-time💰 $218,700–$218,700🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building AI foundation models (LLMs) and optimizing training/finetuning to create trustworthy, real-time AI systems for banking customer experiences.

Role type

Senior Applied Researcher (AI Foundations)

Builds

Production AI foundation models and scalable high-performance AI infrastructure for banking products.

Domain

Financial Services / Large Language Models / Deep Learning Optimization

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning model development, LLM pre-training, training optimization, self-supervised learning, robustness, explainability, RLHF, cloud computing, open-source tools

Preferred skills

LLM architecture design, model sparsification, quantization, training parallelism, gradient checkpointing, compiler design, instruction-tuning, transfer learning, deep learning theory publications

Technologies

PyTorch, AWS Ultraclusters, HuggingFace, Lightning

Responsibilities

Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver AI-powered products; build AI foundation models through design, training, evaluation, and implementation; conduct high-impact applied research to push AI developments into customer experiences; prepare internal tech reports or conference submissions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with research leadership

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