Sr Director Applied Research

2 months ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates SimplyApply Full time

BasicQualifications

  • Ph.D. plus at least 6 years ofexperience in Applied Research or M.S. plus at least 8 years ofexperience in Applied Research
  • At least 5 yearsof people leadership experience

PreferredQualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science, MachineLearning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, ElectricalEngineering or relatedfields
  • LLM
    • PhD focus on NLPor Masters with 10 years of industrial NLP researchexperience
    • Core contributor to team that hastrained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters,500B+ tokens)
    • Numerous publications at ACL,NAACL and EMNLP, Neurips, ICML or ICLR on topics related to thepre-training of large language models (e.g. technical reports ofpre-trained LLMs, SSL techniques, model pre-trainingoptimization)
    • Has worked on an LLM (open sourceor commercial) that is currently available foruse
    • Demonstrated ability to guide the technicaldirection of a large-scale model trainingteam
    • Experience working with 500+ node clustersof GPUs Has worked on LLM scaled to 70B parameters and 1T+tokens
    • Experience with common trainingoptimization frameworks (deep speed, nemo)
  • BehavioralModels
    • PhD focus on topics in geometric deeplearning (Graph Neural Networks, Sequential Models, MultivariateTime Series)
    • Member of technical leadership formodel deployment for a very large user behaviormodel
    • Multiple papers on topics relevant totraining models on graph and sequential data structures at KDD,ICML, NeurIPs, ICLR
    • Worked on scaling graphmodels to greater than 50m nodes Experience with large scale deeplearning based recommender systems
    • Experiencewith production real-time and streamingenvironments
    • Contributions to common opensource frameworks (pytorch-geometric,DGL)
    • Proposed new methods for inference orrepresentation learning on graphs orsequences
    • Worked datasets with 100m+users
  • Optimization(Training & Inference)
    • PhD focused ontopics related to optimizing training of very large languagemodels
    • 5+ years of experience and/orpublications on one of the following topics: Model Sparsification,Quantization, Training Parallelism/Partitioning Design, GradientCheckpointing, ModelCompression
  • Finetuning
    • PhDfocused on topics related to guiding LLMs with further tasks(Supervised Finetuning, Instruction-Tuning, Dialogue-Finetuning,Parameter Tuning)
    • Demonstrated knowledge ofprinciples of transfer learning, model adaptation and modelguidance
    • Experience deploying a fine-tunedlarge language model
  • DataPreparation
    • Numerous Publications studyingtokenization, data quality, dataset curation, orlabeling
    • Leading contributions to one or morelarge open source corpus (1 Trillion +tokens)
    • Core contributor to open sourcelibraries for data quality, dataset curation, orlabeling

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