Institute of Foundation Models
Research Scientist - Data
$150K–$450K
Sunnyvale, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Mar 25, 2025
- Education
- Master’s in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; PhD or equivalent research experience preferred.
About the job
Curates and develops web-scale datasets and data pipelines to improve the capabilities and training of large language and multimodal foundation models.
What you'll do
- Develop web-scale data collection, curation, and synthesis methods for LLM and multimodal datasets.
- Assess data quality and trace its impact on model capabilities; design data recipes and improve data-model co-design.
- Contribute to research papers and represent the institution at conferences and industry events.
What they ask for
- Master’s in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with LLMs, including evaluation, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering.
- Strong Python development skills and experience with scalable data pipelines.
- Familiarity with large-scale dataset collection and processing, and ML infrastructure.
Nice to have
- PhD or equivalent research experience in Machine Learning, NLP, or Data Science focused on LLMs and data.
- Research in data curation, dataset synthesis, LLM evaluation, or related areas; strong AI conference publications or open-source contributions; or experience training models from scratch.
Pay
USD 150,000–450,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, LLMs
AI focus
Research and build data methods, pipelines, and quality frameworks for training and improving LLMs and multimodal foundation models.
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