Senior Research engineer - Multimodal Language Models

Luma AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI company seeks engineers for developing multimodal AI systems, emphasizing models that integrate audio and visual data. Responsibilities include building evaluation tools and improving large-scale data processing. Successful candidates will have expertise in Python and PyTorch, with involvement in innovative research projects.

Benefits

Competitive equity packages in the form of stock options

Comprehensive benefits plan

Qualifications

• Expertise in Python & Pytorch with hands-on development experience.
• Experience with large-scale text, audio, video, and image data processing.
• Development or benchmarking experience in LLMs or Vision Models.

Responsibilities

• Design large-scale annotation efforts for model post-training.
• Build tools for multimodal language model evaluation.
• Develop AI training and inference methods.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Multimodal data

Distributed systems

Job description

Luma’s mission is to build multimodal AI to expand human imagination and capabilities.

We believe that multimodality is critical for intelligence. To go beyond language models and build more aware, capable and useful systems, the next step function change will come from vision. So, we are working on training and scaling up multimodal foundation models for systems that can see and understand, show and explain, and eventually interact with our world to effect change.

We are looking for engineers with significant experience solving hard problems in PyTorch, multimodal data, and distributed systems. You will work as a team to end-to-end build cutting edge multimodal language models with strong emphasis on audio and visual data. Your contributions will be pivotal in shaping various research projects and product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop large-scale annotation efforts for model post-training.
• Build tools to evaluate and benchmark multimodal language models.
• Develop large-scale AI training and inference methods.
• Ensure efficient implementation of models & systems for data processing and training.
• Build tools to visualize, evaluate and filter datasets.
• Collaborate with research and engineering teams across Luma to transfer research to products and services.
• Implement cutting-edge product prototypes based on multimodal generative AI.

Experience

• Expertise in Python & Pytorch, including practical experience working with the full development pipeline from data processing, preparation & data loading to training and inference.
• Experience processing large-scale text data, or (bonus) interleaved data spanning audio, video, image, and/or text.
• Hands-on experience in developing or benchmarking at least one of the following topics: LLMs, Vision Language Models, Audio Language Models, generative video models.

Good to have

• Experience in design and development of annotation tools
• Experience in synthetic data

Compensation

• The pay range for this position in California is $200,000 - $300,000/yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, candidate location, and experience. We also offer competitive equity packages in the form of stock options and a comprehensive benefits plan.

$200,000 - $300,000 a year

The pay range for this position in California is $200,000 - $300,000yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, candidate location, and experience. We also offer competitive equity packages in the form of stock options and a comprehensive benefits plan.

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