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ML Researcher, Foundational Models

Sarvam· Models
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BengaluruFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Researcher focused on open-ended questions to shape next-generation foundational models. Not a fine-tuning role; emphasizes architecture, optimization, data composition, training dynamics, ablations, and production-ready decisions with access to large-scale compute and close collaboration with training stack and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Drive open-ended research on architecture, optimization, scaling behaviour, training stability, and post-training recipes for our next generation of foundational models.
  • Design and execute ablations at scales that actually inform large-run decisions — including running pre-training experiments end-to-end yourself.
  • Translate research findings into concrete proposals for the next training run, and own those proposals through to production.
  • Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the infrastructure and data teams; many of the most important research questions live at that boundary.
  • Read broadly, write internally, and publish externally when the work merits it.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a closely related field (or in the final stages of completion).
  • 3+ years of research experience post-PhD (or equivalent depth). Exceptional early-career candidates with a strong research record will be considered.
  • First-author publications at top-tier ML venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, or COLM.
  • Hands-on experience pre-training transformer-based language models from scratch, ideally at 7B+ parameters.
  • Meaningful contributions to the open-source LLM ecosystem — research code, model releases, datasets, or substantive contributions to widely-used projects.
  • Fluency in PyTorch and comfort with distributed training.
  • Strong intuition for experimental design — knowing what to measure, what to ablate, and what scale a result needs to hold at before it can be trusted.

Skills

Required:PhD or equivalent in ML/CS

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description.
Last updated Jul 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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