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AI Anime Researcher - LLM

Conducts advanced LLM research for post-training, roleplay, and real-time integration into an anime-style 3D adventure game AI companion. Requires deep LLM expertise, anime passion, and ability to build scalable infrastructure on a small onsite team.

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About the role

Responsibilities

  • Define new LLM-driven storytelling experiences for 3D first-person adventure game with AI companion integrated into gameplay, puzzles, and narrative.
  • Conduct LLM post-training research focused on roleplay, real-time interaction, and anime character generation.
  • Gather human feedback via RLHF-style systems or interaction log analysis.
  • Build LLM infrastructure including data processing backends, deterministic data loaders, sharding, memory optimization, scalable benchmarking, and checkpoint selection.
  • Balance research exploration with product development for low-latency, real-time AI companion interactions.

Requirements

  • Published or industry experience with LLM post-training.
  • Deep understanding of LLM training and evaluation.
  • Experience working on small, fast-paced teams.
  • Comfortable with in-person collaboration.
  • Love for anime and anime aesthetic.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Post-training work focused on roleplay.
  • Latency optimization for real-time interactions.
  • Experience gathering human feedback (RLHF voting systems, interaction logs).
  • LLM infrastructure experience (data processing, sharding, memory saving, benchmarking).

Skills

LLMsRLHFPost-TrainingRoleplayLatency OptimizationData ProcessingShardingMemory OptimizationBenchmarkingHuman Feedback

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