Cerence is the global industry leader in creating AI-powered user experiences for automotive and transportation.
Senior AI Scientist
Location
California
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$123.5K - $197.6K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior AI 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 and compute • Apply strong fundamentals in deep learning and representation learning • Build models from first principles, not just adapt pre-existing codebases • Own optimiser and scheduler choices, including AdamW, Lion, Adafactor • Design and experiment with loss functions including next-token prediction and contrastive objectives • Design and execute large-scale training using FSDP, ZeRO-3, Tensor parallelism, Pipeline parallelism • Apply mixed precision (bf16, fp8) and gradient checkpointing
Job Requirements
- 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 and compute
- 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
- Own optimiser and scheduler choices, including AdamW, Lion, Adafactor
- Understand and debug optimiser instability and gradient pathologies
- Apply and validate scaling laws
- Design and experiment with loss functions including next-token prediction and contrastive objectives
- Design and execute large-scale training using FSDP, ZeRO-3, Tensor parallelism, Pipeline parallelism
- Apply mixed precision (bf16, fp8) and gradient checkpointing
- Partner closely with ML systems teams
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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