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Senior Researcher: Artificial General Intelligence – Natural Language Processing
| Company | Tencent |
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| Location | Bellevue, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $157200 – $265200 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | PhD |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Has or is in the process of obtaining a PhD degree in AI, computer science, electrical engineering, math, physics, or related technical fields.
- Proven record of influential publications in top AI conferences and journals.
- Experience collaborating within a team to solve analytical problems and conduct original research in one of the following areas: generative AI, large language models, reinforcement learning, multimodal reasoning and generation, self-improving, and efficient deep learning.
- Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and Tensorflow.
- Experience writing efficient and reusable code and executing complex experiments involving large AI models and high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources.
- Strong communication skills for articulating research ideas, results, and the impact of innovations both within the organization and in the broader research community.
- Has work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire and maintains ongoing work authorization during employment.
Responsibilities
- Work with other researchers to identify new and upcoming research areas, long-term ambitious research goals, and intermediate milestones by interacting with potential external and internal collaborators. Own long-term research strategy and plans to expand the impact of Tencent AI Lab.
- Identify undefined problems in existing technology and develop theoretically sound novel models and algorithms to address them.
- Design experiments, write reusable code, run evaluations, and analyze results.
- Collaborate with other researchers and engineers across functional groups to push forward the state-of-the art of AGI.
- Prioritize research that can be applied to Tencent’s products. Deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly.
- Author research papers to share and generate the impact of research results across organizations and in the research community.
- Share research trends and best practices in the community by reviewing academic papers, serving on program committees and grant panels, speaking at Tencent events or research conferences, or organizing research conferences and visioning activities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in multiple of following areas: large language model, reinforcement learning, multimodal reasoning and generation, efficient deep learning.
- Strong abstraction ability and mathematical skills.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and developing big models that scale across multiple GPUs or cloud-based systems.
- Experience in multi-modal foundation models.
- Experience in model optimization for deployment in production environments.
