p>Preferred Qualifications: • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or related fields • LLM PhD focus on NLP or Masters with 10 years of industrial NLP research experience • Core contributor to team that has trained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters, 500B+ tokens) or through continued pre-training, post training pipeline for alignment and reasoning, LLM optimizations, complex reasoning with multi-agentic LLMs • Numerous publications at ACL, NAACL and EMNLP, Neurips, ICML or ICLR on topics related to the pre-training of large language models (e.g. technical reports of pre-trained LLMs, SSL techniques, model pre-training optimization) • Has worked on an LLM (open source or commercial) that is currently available for use • Demonstrated ability to guide the technical direction of a large-scale model training team • Experience with common training optimization frameworks (deep speed, nemo) • Experience contributing to the team that has trained a large language model from scratch (10B + parameters, 500B+ tokens) or through continued pre-training, post training pipeline for alignment and reasoning, LLM optimizations, complex reasoning with multi-agentic LLMs.