Senior Research Engineer / Research Scientist – LLM Pretraining
Eternity Quests LLP · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 42d ago
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About this role
Senior Research Engineer / Research Scientist – LLM Pretraining
Own the architecture and training of a frontier-scale language model, from first token to flagship run.
Location: Delhi NCR or Bengaluru | Experience: 4 – 12 years
About the opportunity
We are retained by a well-funded AI lab building foundation models from the ground up in India — real compute, real pretraining, not fine-tuning on top of someone else's model. The team is small and the work is unusually direct: what you build ships into the model.
The client's identity is confidential at this stage and will be shared on first call.
What you will do
• Design and implement next-generation model architectures.
• Run rigorous empirical research on scaling laws and training stability.
• Develop and refine large-scale tokenization strategies.
• Act as technical steward for large scout and flagship training runs — continuous uptime, rapid diagnosis of loss spikes and divergence.
What we are looking for
• 4+ years in ML research or software engineering with focused work on LLM pretraining.
• Deep understanding of transformer architectures.
• Hands-on experience training models on large compute clusters.
• Evidence of depth: publications, open-source contributions, or models you have shipped.
What is on offer
• Compensation is open and benchmarked to the top of the Indian market for this profile, with meaningful equity.
• Delhi NCR is the primary base, but the client is flexible on Bengaluru for the right person.
• Relocation support, including for candidates returning from outside India.
How to apply
Apply here, or write to [HIDDEN TEXT] with your CV and links to anything you have published, shipped or open-sourced. We reply to every serious application within 48 hours.
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