NLP Research Scientist

Key Responsibilities

• Develop LLM model with parameter number around 1 billion, with special focus on developing innovative LLM architectures for long context memory, and in-context retrieve and generation
• Develop synthetic data pipeline/creating real data pipeline for LLM training
• Develop effective methods for benchmarking, e.g., LLM-As-Judge
• Collaborate closely with hardware engineers, software developers, and product teams to integrate research prototypes into production systems
• Publish research findings in premier AI conferences (e.g., ICLR, NeurIPS)

Qualifications

• Minimum: Master/Ph.D. in AI, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with a focus on NLP/AIS
• Strong background in generative AI, with hands-on experience developing LLM
• Practical expertise in training and optimizing large language models for both cloud and edge inference
• Excellent programming skills in Python

• Deeply knowing the concept of LLM context, memory, RAG, and has related experiences in those topics
• Experience with large language model with parameter number around 1 billion, knowing the tradeoffs in such models
• Contributions to open-source AI projects
• Strong collaborative and communication skills

Benefits

OPPO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$300,000 + bonus + long term incentives benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.