AI Researcher — Distillation

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About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for an AI Researcher focused on model distillation to help us push the frontier of efficient, high-performance models. You’ll work on turning large, expensive models into smaller, faster, and more deployable systems—while maintaining or improving quality. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys publishing research, working close to real systems, and seeing their ideas move from papers → code → production. WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON - Design and evaluate model distillation techniques (teacher–student training, self-distillation, layer-wise distillation, representation matching, etc.) - Research tradeoffs between model size, latency, memory, and accuracy - Develop novel distillation approaches for: - Large language models…

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