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Research Scientist in LLM Foundation Models – Reasoning – Planning & agent

Research Scientist in LLM Foundation Models – Reasoning – Planning & agent

CompanyByteDance
LocationSan Jose, CA, USA
Salary$Not Provided – $Not Provided
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Proficiency in research experience with RL, LLM, CV and familiarity with large-scale model training
  • Proficiency in data structures, and fundamental algorithm skills, fluency in C/C++ or Python
  • Experience with influential projects or papers in RL, NLP, deep learning
  • Excellent problem analysis and solving skills, able to deeply solve problems in large-scale model training and application
  • Good communication and collaboration skills, able to explore new technologies with the team and promote technological progress.

Responsibilities

  • Enhance reasoning and planning throughout the entire development process, encompassing data acquisition, model evaluation, pretraining, SFT, reward modeling, and reinforcement learning, to bolster overall performance
  • Synthesize large-scale, high-quality (multi-modal) data through methods such as rewriting, augmentation, and generation to improve the abilities of foundation models in various stages (pretraining, SFT, RLHF)
  • Solve complex tasks via system 2 thinking, leverage advanced decoding strategies such as MCTS, A*
  • Investigate and implement robust evaluation methodologies to assess model performance at various stages, unravel the underlying mechanisms and sources of their abilities, and utilize this understanding to drive model improvements
  • Teach foundation models to use tools, interact with APIs and code interpreters. Build agents and multi-agents to solve complex tasks.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Proficiency in research experience with RL, LLM, CV and familiarity with large-scale model training are preferred
  • Experience with influential projects or papers in RL, NLP, deep learning are preferred