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Cerence Inc.

Cerence is the global industry leader in creating AI-powered user experiences for automotive and transportation.

Senior AI Scientist

AI Research ScientistMachine Learning EngineerFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2019H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

India

Posted

1 day ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor DegreeEnglish

Job Description

Senior AI Scientist

Cerence Inc.

• Participate in building and training conversational AI platform using large language models • Collaborate with ML systems teams while retaining architectural ownership • Engage in deep learning and transformer foundations related work

Job Requirements

  • Design and train large-scale transformer and hybrid foundation models
  • Diagnose and resolve training instabilities at scale
  • Navigate scaling tradeoffs across data, compute, and architecture
  • 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 optimizer and scheduler choices, including AdamW, Lion, Adafactor
  • Understand and debug optimizer instability, gradient pathologies
  • Apply and validate scaling laws and compute tradeoffs
  • Design and experiment with loss functions including next-token prediction, contrastive objectives, RLHF, DPO, GRPO
  • Design and execute large-scale training using FSDP, ZeRO-3, Tensor parallelism, Pipeline parallelism
  • Apply mixed precision (bf16, fp8), gradient checkpointing

Benefits

  • Equal Employment Opportunity employer
  • Security policies and training programs for workplace safety

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