Machine Learning Scientist I/II, LLM Training & Inference Research

Lila Sciences • Cambridge, MA

21d • $176,000 - $304,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Machine Learning Scientist in LLM Training & Inference Research, you will lead research on how we train and serve large language models for scientific applications.

Requirements

• Strong background in LLM training and deployment.
• Research experience in scalable compute techniques.
• Publications or contributions to open-source frameworks welcome.

Nice To Haves

• Experience applying LLMs to scientific or technical data.
• Work in collaborative cross-functional ML environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize LLM post-training strategies including SFT, RLHF, and RL with verifiers.
• Design test-time compute and efficient inference mechanisms for complex tool use environments.
• Build scalable evaluations for LLM performance on scientific reasoning.
• Explore the limits of frontier LLM based approaches for scientific tasks and quantifying their failure modes.

Benefits

• bonus potential
• generous early equity

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees