AI Researcher Lead 1

Wipro Technologies; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental benefits

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Wipro Limited is seeking a Lead Researcher for AI data alignment and evaluation. You will architect data pipelines, design proactive benchmarks, and publish novel methodologies for LLMs and physical AI. This role emphasizes scientific rigor and leadership in alignment science.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, collaboration with researchers, and developing frameworks for evaluation across open-weight models, with a strong publication track record expected.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a highly quantitative field (CS/AI/Math).
• Deep familiarity with modern alignment techniques (RLHF, DPO, RLAIF).
• Experience with standard evaluation harnesses (EleutherAI LM Eval, HELM, OpenAI Evals).
• Strong ability to architect data pipelines and conduct rigorous evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Design Alignment Methodologies: Architect LHoH and synthetic data generation, design pairwise rubrics and reward mechanisms.
• Build Proactive Benchmarks: Create novel benchmarks spanning agentic reasoning to physical AI.
• Decontaminate & Validate: Detect data contamination and ensure rigorous evaluation to prevent reward hacking.
• Research Publication: Conduct independent research and co-author papers on evaluation frameworks.
• Technical Leadership: Collaborate with domain researchers to turn ground-truth data into scoreable evaluation frameworks.

Skills

RLHF

DPO

RLAIF

Evaluation harnesses

Education

PhD or high-impact MSc in CS/AI/Math

Tools

PyTorch

HuggingFace

vLLM

Llama 3

Mistral

Qwen

Job description

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description

Role Overview As an AI Data Foundry, we partner with top-tier labs to build the critical SFT and RLHF datasets that train the next generation of LLMs, SLMs, and Physical AI. We are seeking a Lead Researcher who focuses on the rigorous science of measurement and alignment. In this role, you will architect preference data pipelines, design proactive benchmarks from the ground up, and publish novel methodologies on arXiv and at top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR).

Key Responsibilities

• Design Alignment Methodologies: Architect frameworks for human-in-the-loop and synthetic data generation. Design pairwise preference rubrics (utilizing Bradley-Terry models) and reward mechanisms for DPO, KTO, and PPO pipelines.
• Build Proactive Benchmarks: Lead the creation of novel, domain-specific benchmarks, spanning agentic reasoning to physical AI, that evaluate complex capabilities rather than relying on saturated, static datasets.
• Decontaminate & Validate: Build robust pipelines to detect data contamination (via n-gram overlap, embedding similarity) to ensure deliverables are mathematically sound and mitigate reward hacking.
• Research Publication: Conduct independent research on evaluation frameworks and alignment science, co-authoring papers to establish our technical authority in the field.
• Technical Leadership: Work closely with domain-specific researchers to synthesize ground-truth data into cohesive, scoreable, and statistically sound evaluation frameworks.

Candidate Profile

• Academic Background: Advanced degree (PhD or high-impact MSc) in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, or a highly quantitative field.
• Technical Expertise: Deep familiarity with modern alignment techniques (RLHF, DPO, RLAIF) and standard evaluation harnesses (e.g., EleutherAI LM Eval, HELM, OpenAI Evals).
• Core Stack: Advanced proficiency in PyTorch, HuggingFace, vLLM, and complex data manipulation.
• Model Experience: Hands-on experience fine-tuning or evaluating open-weight models (Llama 3, Mistral, Qwen) with a deep understanding of their architectural bottlenecks.

Expected annual pay for this role ranges from$240,000.00 to$375,000.00. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro’s standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

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