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LLM Post-Training Engineer Graduate (Research & Product) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Education
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related discipline; completing or recently completed.
About the job
Supports research and product deployment of LLM post-training, evaluation, alignment, and related multimedia AI applications.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize instruction tuning, preference tuning, and model alignment strategies.
- Build evaluation pipelines and participate in reward modeling and human preference learning research.
- Analyze large-scale datasets and collaborate on production AI applications such as video understanding, translation, and content classification.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related discipline.
- Strong Python programming skills and experience with PyTorch or JAX.
- Foundational understanding of Transformer architectures and LLM training principles.
- Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment and strong interest in applying AI to products.
Nice to have
- Experience or research involving LLM fine-tuning, RLHF, or synthetic data generation; familiarity with DeepSpeed or Megatron-LM.
- Experience or interest in multimodal AI, or a track record of building and deploying AI projects.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, SFT, DPO, PPO
AI focus
LLM post-training and alignment, including instruction and preference tuning, reward modeling, human preference learning, evaluation, and multimedia product applications.
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