Postdoc, Research in Llm Engineering I.e

Vor 7 Tagen


Lausanne, Schweiz emploi.epfl.ch Vollzeit

**Mission** - We’re hiring a technically exceptional and impact-focused **Postdoctoral Researcher in LLM engineering**to lead research and development within the **Meditron initiative**—a suite of evolving open-source medical LLMs and multimodal foundation models. - You will contribute to model training, data curation, safety alignment, and global health deployments. You’ll join a fast-moving, interdisciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and students advancing trustworthy AI for medicine and humanitarian response. **Main duties and responsibilities** - Design scalable LLM pipelines using FSDP, DeepSpeed, HuggingFace Accelerate - Lead model development (e.g., LLaMA, Mistral, Phi, Gemma) using LoRA, FlashAttention-2, MoE - Contribute to safety alignment (RLHF, DPO, red-teaming, rejection sampling, calibration) - Support data pipeline audits (tokenizer design, deduplication, privacy, synthetic supervision) - Benchmark across general and medical tasks (lm-eval-harness, HELM, guideline adherence) - Publish and present research at top venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ML4H) - Collaborate closely with clinicians and humanitarian partners to ensure safety and usability **Profile** - Proven experience training >1B parameter models with distributed infrastructure - Expertise in PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, DeepSpeed, FSDP- Deep understanding of transformer internals and optimization strategies- Strong Python engineering skills (tests, containers, CI/CD, reproducibility)- Clear scientific communication and publication experience **Preferred** - Familiarity with clinical LLMs or decision support systems - Experience with safety-critical evaluation (e.g., hallucination detection, benchmark leakage) - Contributions to open-source projects - Passion for equity-centered deployment and global health **Our Stack** PyTorch, HuggingFace, DeepSpeed, FSDP, WANDB, Hydra, MLFlow, WebDataset, Slurm, Docker, lm-eval-harness, OpenCompass, MedQA, SwissAlps (CSCS) **We offer** - At LiGHT, we combine scientific rigor with purpose-driven action. We value creativity, humility, collaboration, and principled research that leads to tangible health impact. Our team culture embraces diverse backgrounds and sustained commitment to excellence, equity, and integrity. **Informations** - A brief cover letter (pdf, up to 2 pages). And in one PDF: - A CV with a publication list. - A research statement (pdf, up to 3 pages). - Contact details for 3 referees. For any further information, please contact: [XXX] - Contract Start Date: - Activity Rate : 100.00 - Contract Type: CDD - Duration: 1 year, renewable - Reference: 1635



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