# Research Scientist (LLM Architectures)

CommonAI CIC is a non-profit membership organisation, founded on a belief in collaborative engineering for the safe and responsible development of foundational AI technologies. A place where AI startups, enterprises large and small, public sector bodies and academia can share resources and knowledge, to codevelop and grow businesses, fast. We are led by experienced founders, investors and engineers who believe that collaborative engineering drives faster AI innovation and are backed by a mix of UK Government and private funding in order to design, build and deploy innovative AI systems. The Opportunity We are seeking a Research Scientist to drive our research on new large language model architectures that reduce the cost of inference while retaining performance. The work treats the realities of serving hardware, such as memory bandwidth and data movement, as first-class design constraints. It runs on the UK's national AI supercomputers and on our own compute nodes. You will join a small research team, working with our Research Software Engineer and kernel engineer, and take early-stage ideas through to rigorous experiments, larger-scale runs and publication. As an AI-first company,

- **Id**: 3987888
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/commonai-research-scientist-llm-architectures>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Cambridge, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T22:16:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T01:39:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
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- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Compute & Inference, High-Performance Computing

## Company

- **Id**: 38984
- **Name**: CommonAI
- **Domain**: commonai.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/commonai>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **HPC** — Optional: no
- **Interpretability** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Mixture of Experts** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **SLURM** — Optional: no
- **Triton** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:16:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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