Junior AI Researcher — Transformer & LLM Experiments

Giotto; Lausanne; Hybrid; CHF 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Giotto.ai, a Swiss AI company, is looking for a Junior AI Researcher in Lausanne. A completed or near-completed Master’s in CS/AI/ML or related fields is needed.

You will translate ideas from research into experiments, train and evaluate Transformer-based models, and build benchmarks while collaborating with research, engineering and product teams. You will gain experience turning advanced research into production-ready AI systems, working in a hybrid Swiss office and contributing to the

Qualifications

• Completed or near completed Master’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mathematics, physics or related quantitative field.
• Solid understanding of machine learning and deep learning fundamentals.
• Practical experience with Python and PyTorch through university projects, a thesis, research work or an internship.
• Familiarity with Transformer architectures and large language models.
• Understanding of probability, statistics, linear algebra and optimisation.
• Ability to read research papers and implement ideas from them.
• Curiosity, analytical thinking and a willingness to learn.
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Read and discuss recent AI research and help translate promising ideas into experiments.
• Train, fine-tune and evaluate Transformer-based models.
• Contribute to experiments involving reasoning, synthetic data, model adaptation and evaluation.
• Build benchmarks and analyse model performance and failure cases.
• Explore improvements to training data, objectives, prompts and inference strategies.
• Write clean and reproducible research code.
• Document experiments, results and conclusions.
• Collaborate with research, engineering and product colleagues.
• Learn how advanced research is transformed into production-ready AI systems.

Skills

Python programming

PyTorch

Transformer architectures

Reading research papers

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Collaboration

Curiosity

Education

Master’s degree in CS/AI/ML or related field

Tools

Hugging Face Transformers

Hugging Face Datasets

GPUs

Experiment tracking tools

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Giotto.ai, a Swiss AI company, is looking for a Junior AI Researcher in Lausanne. A completed or near-completed Master’s in CS/AI/ML or related fields is needed.

You will translate ideas from research into experiments, train and evaluate Transformer-based models, and build benchmarks while collaborating with research, engineering and product teams. You will gain experience turning advanced research into production-ready AI systems, working in a hybrid Swiss office and contributing to the