Member of Technical Staff ML Scientist Japanese Multimodal

Liquid AI is an efficiency-first foundation-model company building device-native Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) and tools to customize and deploy them.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
About Liquid AI

An MIT CSAIL spinout, Liquid AI develops general-purpose AI models focused on efficient deployment across CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, edge devices, and cloud or on-premises environments.

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About the Role

You will own the post-training experimental loop for language and multimodal models. You will develop training strategies, curate data, build evaluations, run controlled experiments and ablations, and analyze errors. You will create scalable training and evaluation pipelines and turn successful methods, datasets, and tooling into measurable model improvements.

Requirements

  • Experience post-training modern language or multimodal models
  • Knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, post-training, and reinforcement learning methods
  • Engineering skills and proficiency with the open-source ML ecosystem
  • Experience running rigorous experiments, baselines, ablations, and error analysis
  • Experience building, curating, or assessing training and evaluation data
  • Ability to create reliable implementations and measurable model improvements
  • English proficiency
  • Experience using agents to amplify work

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute post-training strategies for language and multimodal models
  • Build and curate training data using human, synthetic, and model-generated signals
  • Develop evaluations for capability and reliability gaps
  • Conduct error analysis to improve data, objectives, training methods, and model behavior
  • Run controlled experiments and ablations
  • Develop scalable training and evaluation pipelines
  • Contribute post-training methods, tooling, datasets, and findings

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Unlimited paid time off
  • Equity
  • Standard benefits for employees in Japan