Research Engineer: Multi-Domain Alignment for Multimodal AI

Indian AI Research Organization (IAIRO); Bandon; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Indian AI Research Organization (IAIRO) is seeking a Research Engineer to join the Alignment team to advance Sovereign AI by developing compact, right-sized models and robust safety frameworks.

You will bridge base pretraining and deployment, architect behavioral logic and safety for multimodal SLMs, and work across domains such as Legal, Healthcare, and Industrial Robotics to maintain alignment with human intent and cultural values.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, ML, or equivalent practical experience in training large-scale models.
• Expertise in Python and PyTorch within the Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, TRL, PEFT, Accelerate).
• Proven Alignment Track Record: RLHF, Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and Constitutional AI.
• Scaling Knowledge: Deep understanding of Scaling Laws and the Alignment Tax for compute-constrained environments.
• Multimodal familiarity: Experience aligning models that process text, visual, and sensor data.

Responsibilities

• Frontier Alignment Research: Design and implement scalable alignment pipelines (SFT, DPO, PPO) to optimize 1B-7B parameter models for high-stakes, domain-specific tasks.
• Advanced Preference Modeling: Architect reward models and preference datasets that capture nuanced domain expertise.
• Multi-domain Synthesis: Develop techniques to mitigate alignment drift and catastrophic forgetting when models are specialized across disparate industries.
• Evaluation & Red-Teaming: Create automated benchmarking suites and adversarial testing frameworks to validate model robustness.
• Open Source & Transparency: Contribute to the community by open-sourcing high-quality code and reproducible research.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

HuggingFace

RLHF

DPO

Constitutional AI

Scaling Laws

Multimodal models

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science / ML

Tools

Transformers

TRL

PEFT

Accelerate

vLLM

TensorRT

CUDA

Job description

Indian AI Research Organization (IAIRO) is seeking a Research Engineer to join the Alignment team to advance Sovereign AI by developing compact, right-sized models and robust safety frameworks.

You will bridge base pretraining and deployment, architect behavioral logic and safety for multimodal SLMs, and work across domains such as Legal, Healthcare, and Industrial Robotics to maintain alignment with human intent and cultural values.