NLP Research Scientist

OPPO US Research Center•Palo Alto, CA

2d•$100,000 - $300,000

About The Position

OPPO Research Center is seeking a passionate and innovative Research Scientist to advance our next-generation AI hardware platforms—including AI Glass/Earphone/etc.—through cutting-edge generative AI research. You will drive the design, training, and deployment of multimodal intelligence models that seamlessly integrate language, vision and action. As part of our collaborative team, you will co-design algorithms and hardware, translate research into real-world products, and publish at top-tier AI conferences.

Requirements

Master/Ph.D. in AI, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with a focus on NLP/AI
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

Nice To Haves

Deeply knowing the concept of LLM context, memory, RAG, and has related experiences in those topics
Has the experience to build LLM training dataset, and benchmark, with such proved record in publications
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

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)