Staff Applied Research Scientist - Pretraining/Fine-tuning

The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) at ServiceNow is seeking a Staff Applied Research Scientist to drive significant innovations for Large Language Models (LLMs) for Enterprise Language Generation. The successful candidate will play a major part in driving innovations for LLMs, applying existing methods and developing new ones to solve real-world challenges and datasets. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize requirements, and working closely with researchers and applied research scientists to validate and drive innovations.

Requirements

• PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent work experience
• Expertise in Python, OOP, Design Patterns
• Experience in Pretraining of an LLM is preferred but not mandatory
• Experience with Instruction fine tuning and other fine-tuning techniques is a must
• Experience with Reinforcement learning is preferred but not mandatory
• Experience with various transformer architectures (auto-regressive,sequence-to-sequence etc)
• Ability to read latest papers and experiment with the ideas
• Good publication record in top tier conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, etc
• Communicating research findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

• Base pay of $165,800 - $290,200
• Equity (when applicable)
• Variable/incentive compensation
• Health plans, including flexible spending accounts
• 401(k) Plan with company match
• ESPP
• Matching donations
• Flexible time away plan
• Family leave programs