Senior Software Engineer - Large Language Models

About the role

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a publicly funded research institute based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Artificial Intelligence Research Center. The Extreme-Scale Language Model team develops and implements deep learning technologies with applications from natural language processing to perception and vision, having built the Falcon models and now moving toward applied research in large language models. The role sits within the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Research Centre.

Key responsibilities

• Build products and MVPs on top of the models.
• Fine-tune the models for domain-specific use cases.
• Design evaluation pipelines and benchmarks for fine-tuned models.
• Build and maintain product backends and front-end interfaces to integrate and showcase model capabilities.
• Work with researchers and engineers to move models from lab to product.
• Translate product needs into model capabilities and technical requirements.
• Optimize model performance and user experience.

Required profile

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong experience in applied AI software development.
• Ability to quickly build prototypes and iterate.
• Good communication and teamwork.

Required skills

• Strong coding in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX.
• Hands-on experience fine-tuning large models, including LoRA, prompt tuning, RLHF or similar methods.
• Experience with cloud, GPU environments, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Backend and frontend framework experience.