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You will work on translating emerging research into scalable and enterprise ready AI solutions.\nKey Responsibilities\nConduct research in Generative AI, LLMs, SLMs, retrieval systems, and AI systems.\nDevelop and optimize domain specific LLMs and SLMs using pre training, supervised fine tuning, preference tuning, reinforcement learning, and other model adaptation techniques.\nDesign and improve retrieval and RAG systems using embeddings, hybrid retrieval, reranking, contextual chunking, and knowledge graphs.\nDevelop evaluation approaches for models and retrieval systems covering quality, accuracy, reliability, latency, and cost.\nResearch model optimization techniques such as quantization, pruning, distillation, sparsity, and efficient inference.\nDevelop and optimize distributed model training and inference across multi GPU and multi node environments.\nOptimize AI workloads for GPU and HPC environments, focusing on throughput, latency, memory utilization, and compute efficiency.\nExplore agentic AI techniques such as reasoning, tool use, retrieval, reflection, and multi agent collaboration where relevant.\nDevelop data preparation, synthetic data generation, benchmarking, and evaluation pipelines.\nWork with researchers, domain experts, and engineering teams to convert research ideas into reusable frameworks and solutions.\nPublish research findings in leading conferences and journals and contribute to patents and intellectual property.\nMentor researchers and engineers and help build strong research capabilities within the team\nSkill Requirements\nStrong research or engineering experience in LLMs, SLMs, retrieval systems, machine learning systems, or HPC for AI.\nExperience with model training and adaptation techniques such as supervised fine tuning, LoRA, QLoRA, preference tuning, reinforcement learning, or continual pre training.\nStrong understanding of retrieval and RAG, including embeddings, vector search, BM25, hybrid retrieval, reranking, chunking, and retrieval evaluation.\nExperience with distributed model training and inference using multi GPU or multi node environments.\nExperience with GPU and HPC technologies such as CUDA, GPU clusters, distributed computing, or performance optimization.\nExperience with PyTorch, Hugging Face, vLLM, SGLang, DeepSpeed, or similar frameworks.\nStrong programming skills in Python. 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