LLM Researcher
San Francisco, CA$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 2d ago
About the role
Role at Nori Robotics focusing on fine-tuning and post-training language models for creative writing, narrative coherence, and behavioral preferences to improve robot-human interactions and product deployments.
Responsibilities
- Fine-tune and post-train models for voice, character, narrative coherence, conversation, and social behavior.
- Develop text-based creative and behavioral preference datasets, with clear human review and comparison criteria.
- Build creative-writing benchmarks and run preference studies, ablations, and held-out evaluations to measure behavior.
- Work with the VLM researcher and harness engineer to deploy improvements and study model behavior in products with real users.
Qualifications
- Hands-on LLM fine-tuning and post-training, with strong Python and PyTorch or JAX and practical distributed-training experience.
- Research in model behavior, open-ended generation, or preference learning, with rigorous human evaluation and experimental design.
- Nice to have: creative-writing evaluation, long-context narrative consistency, preference learning, or relevant publications.
Skills
Required:LLM fine-tuningPythonPyTorch or JAXModel evaluation
Nice to have:Creative-writing evaluation
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nori
Sub-1500$ robot anyone can program
We manufacture humanoid robots in San Francisco.
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