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Machine Learning Scientist, LLM Training & Inference Research

Lila Sciences is building a scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab to accelerate discovery in life, chemistry, and materials science. The company seeks a Machine Learning Scientist to lead research on training and serving large language models (LLMs) tailored for scientific applications, focusing on post-training strategies, efficient inference, scalable evaluation, and analysis of failure modes.

Skills

  • Strong background in LLM training and deployment.
  • Research experience in scalable and distributed compute techniques.
  • Familiarity with RLHF, SFT, and reinforcement learning methods for language models.
  • Experience building evaluations and analyzing model failure modes.
  • Publications or contributions to open-source frameworks are valued.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research and development of post-training strategies including supervised fine-tuning (SFT), RLHF, and reinforcement learning with verifiers.
  • Design and implement test-time compute strategies and efficient inference mechanisms for complex tool-use environments.
  • Build scalable, reproducible evaluations to measure LLM performance on scientific reasoning tasks.
  • Investigate the limits of frontier LLM approaches on domain-specific scientific tasks and quantify failure modes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams (research, engineering, domain scientists) to integrate models into production workflows.

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Computational Biology, or related field preferred.
  • Master's degree with substantial relevant industry or research experience considered.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Generous paid time off
  • Collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment
  • Opportunities for publication and open-source contribution
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