AI Research Engineer, Model Compression, Quantization

🕒 May 19

🇮🇹 Italy – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧠 AI Research Scientist

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📋 Description

• Drive innovation in model compression and efficient deployment for advanced multimodal AI systems, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs). • Reduce model footprint and computational cost while preserving accuracy, enabling high-performance AI to run efficiently across resource-constrained edge devices. • Apply and advance compression techniques such as quantization, knowledge distillation, and pruning. • Build robust compression pipelines, establish performance and fidelity metrics, and address bottlenecks in production inference.

🎯 Requirements

• A degree in Computer Science or related field. • Ideally PhD in NLP, Machine Learning, or a related field, complemented by a solid track record in AI R&D (with good publications in A* conferences). • Experience with PyTorch deep learning frameworks or equivalent frameworks • Hands-on experience with model quantization including both Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) and Post-Training Quantization (PTQ). • Research and hands-on experience with knowledge distillation for compressing large models into smaller, efficient ones. • Research and hands-on experience with model pruning for compressing large models into smaller, efficient ones. • Solid understanding of neural network architectures and training processes – Including transformers (e.g., LLMs, VLMs), backpropagation, optimization, and fine-tuning techniques. • Familiarity with C++ is a plus (especially for implementing low-level quantization kernels or inference optimizations).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Flexible work hours • Professional development budget • Home office setup allowance • Global team events

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