Member of Technical Staff, Data Analysis and Evaluation - Remote

Overview

As a Member of Technical Staff in Data Analysis and Evaluation, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our large language models (LLMs). Your primary focus will be on designing and conducting data collection tasks, assessing and evaluating dataset quality, and analysing the robustness and generalisability of our models.

In Short

• Design and oversee data collection tasks, including supporting human annotators and ensuring data quality.
• Develop and apply statistical methods to evaluate the quality and reliability of datasets.
• Analyse and assess the generalisability and robustness of ML systems across diverse use cases.
• Collaborate with teams to improve dataset quality and model performance.
• Train and fine-tune large language models (LLMs) on distributed training infrastructures.
• Conduct experiments to evaluate model performance and identify areas for improvement.

Requirements

• Extremely strong software engineering skills.
• Strong expertise in designing and conducting data collection tasks, including working with human annotators.
• Strong statistical skills and experience evaluating scientific experiments related to data collection and model performance.
• Experience analysing datasets with respect to their quality, biases, and suitability for training ML models.
• Hands-on experience training large language models (LLMs) on distributed training infrastructures.
• Familiarity with evaluating and improving the generalisability and robustness of ML systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX).
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and present findings.
• One or more papers at top-tier venues (such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AIStats, MLSys, JMLR, AAAI, Nature, COLING, ACL, EMNLP).

Benefits

• An open and inclusive culture and work environment.
• Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research.
• Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK.
• Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement.
• Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, New York, San Francisco and London and co-working stipend.
• 6 weeks of vacation.