Cerence is the global industry leader in creating AI-powered user experiences for automotive and transportation.
Senior Principal Software Scientist
Location
Massachusetts
Posted
8 days ago
Salary
$185K - $280K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Principal Software Scientist
Cerence Inc.
• Design and train large-scale transformer and hybrid foundation models • Own model architecture choices across text, multimodal, and emerging paradigms • Diagnose and resolve training instabilities at scale • Navigate scaling tradeoffs across data, compute, and architecture • Define the technical direction for next-generation models • Apply strong fundamentals in deep learning and representation learning • Design and modify transformer architectures, including: Attention variants, RoPE, ALiBi, Grouped Query Attention (GQA), Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) • Build models from first principles, not just adapt pre-existing codebases • Own optimizer and scheduler choices, including: AdamW, Lion, Adafactor • Understand and debug optimizer instability, gradient pathologies, divergence at large scale • Validate scaling laws and navigate compute vs. data tradeoffs
Job Requirements
- Strongly Required: Deep theoretical and practical understanding of modern deep learning
- Hands-on experience training large models from scratch
- Ability to reason about optimization, not just tune hyperparameters
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, research-driven environments
- Critical Technical Skills: Transformer internals and attention mechanisms
- Optimization algorithms and training dynamics
- Scaling laws and compute/data tradeoffs
- Distributed training strategies and mixed precision
- Architecture innovation for large, real-world models
Benefits
- Annual bonus opportunity
- Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Company contribution to the RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan)
- Equity awards for certain positions and levels
- Remote and/or hybrid work available depending on the position
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