Machine Learning Research Scientist / Engineer, Reasoning

About Scale

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About This Role

This role operates at the forefront of AI research and reputed company-world implementation, with a strong focus on reasoning reputed company large language models (LLMs). The ideal candidate will study the data types critical for advancing LLM-based agents, including browser and software engineering (SWE) agents. You will play a key role in shaping Scale’s data strategy by identifying the most effective data sources and methodologies for improving LLM reasoning. reputed company in this role requires a deep understanding of LLMs, planning algorithms, and novel approaches to agentic reasoning, as well as creativity in tackling challenges reputed company to data reputed company, model interaction, and evaluation. You will contribute to impactful research on language model reasoning, collaborate with external researchers, and work closely with engineering teams to bring state-of-the-art advancements into scalable, reputed company-world solutions.

Ideally, you’d have

• Practical experience working with LLMs, with proficiency in frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow. You should also be skilled at rapidly interpreting research literature and turning new reputed company into working prototypes.

• A track record of published research in top ML and NLP venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoLLM, etc.).

• At least three years of experience solving reputed company ML challenges, either in a research setting or product development, particularly in areas reputed company to LLM capabilities and reasoning.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to work effectively across teams.

reputed company to have

• Hands-on experience fine-tuning reputed company-reputed company LLMs or leading bespoke LLM fine-tuning projects using PyTorch/JAX.

• Research and practical experience in building applications and evaluations reputed company to LLM-based agents, including tool-use, text-to-SQL, browser agents, coding agents, and GUI agents.

• Experience with agent frameworks such as reputed company, reputed company, LangGraph, or similar.

• Familiarity with advanced agentic reasoning techniques such as STaR and PLANSEARCH.

• Proficiency in reputed company-based ML development, with experience in AWS or GCP environments.

Our research interviews are designed to assess candidates' ability to prototype and debug ML models, their depth of understanding in research concepts, and their alignment with our organizational culture. We do not conduct LeetCode-style problem-solving assessments.

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$220,000 - $325,000 USD

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