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Adaption LabsAdaption LabsNew York, NY

Research Scientist / Research Engineer

Conducts research on efficient AI systems focusing on real-time adaptation, model efficiency, and cross-stack optimization. Requires PhD or equivalent, 4-5+ years industry experience, and deep ML expertise including PyTorch/JAX and optimization techniques.

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Remote4+ YOEAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Innovate on product to co-design algorithms that react real-time to product signal and feedback.
  • Design new ways of giving feedback that drive better algorithms.
  • Collaborate across software, hardware, and algorithmic domains to achieve system-wide efficiency gains.
  • Measure real world impact.

Qualifications

  • PhD or equivalent research experience in a computer science field.
  • 4-5+ years of industry experience.
  • Deep expertise in at least one area: model efficiency, real time alignment or algorithmic optimization.
  • Systems thinking ability to understand and optimize across the full ML stack.
  • Strong programming skills in Python.
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).
  • Knowledge of model optimization techniques (RLHF, finetuning).
  • Experience in an industry lab with computing at scale.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Great teammates who make work feel lighter and bold ideas.
  • Adaptable.

Skills

PythonPyTorchJAXTensorFlowRLHFFinetuning

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