Research Scientist, LLM alignment
Kigali
Research (All Teams) – Research /
Permanent /
Hybrid
InstaDeep, founded in 2014, is a pioneering AI company at the forefront of innovation. With strategic offices in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Berlin, Tunis, Kigali, Cape Town, Boston, and San Francisco, InstaDeep collaborates with giants like Google DeepMind and prestigious educational institutions like MIT, Stanford, Oxford, UCL, and Imperial College London. We are a Google Cloud Partner and a select NVIDIA Elite Service Delivery Partner. We have been listed among notable players in AI, fast-growing companies, and Europe's 1000 fastest-growing companies in 2022 by Statista and the Financial Times. Our recent acquisition by BioNTech has further solidified our commitment to leading the industry.
Join us to be a part of the AI revolution!
InstaDeep is looking for the best of the best across all of Africa to help us build a brighter and more equitable future of advanced AI for personalised healthcare. In particular, we are looking for a Research Scientist for our research team in Kigali, working at the intersection of decision-making, generative modeling and life sciences. We are building the next generation of generative AI technologies and your role will be to help us research the best ways we can ensure that these systems are safe and aligned to a more diverse collective of human preferences.
Are you a Research Scientist who wants to take the next step in your career?
If so, then keep reading...
As a Research Scientist, you will have the opportunity to work at the intersection of decision-making, generative modeling, and life sciences, contributing to the development of next-generation AI technologies for personalized healthcare.
The Research Scientist must Accomplish the following:
- Work within a team of researchers and engineers on an impactful AI research agenda in collaboration and with support from senior researchers.
- Implement and develop novel algorithms and research ideas in generative modelling, reinforcement learning, AI safety, computational biology and related fields.
- Track ongoing developments in machine learning methods for biology.
- Contribute to our publication efforts.
- Encourage and support good research practices as ideas are translated into projects.
- Design and implement algorithms to leverage modern hardware, such as parallelisation across GPUs/TPUs.
- Report and present experimental results and research findings clearly and efficiently, both internally and externally, verbally and in writing.
- From time to time, collaborate with the business development team in their pre-sales activities, including presenting the company to prospective clients and representing InstaDeep at conferences/events.
Who you are:
- Experience leading a team in settings requiring complex problem-solving, effective teamwork and skilful project management.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Biology, Machine Learning or a related scientific field or equivalent industry experience.
- Extensive experience with both sequence-based models such as large language models and reinforcement learning.
- Experience in developing and debugging in Python or similar languages.
- Experience using deep learning frameworks such as Jax, PyTorch and/or Tensorflow.
- Proven ability to contribute to research at the highest level by publishing scientific papers in top academic venues and/or workshops in domains related to Artificial Intelligence and/or BioInformatics.
Our commitment to our people
We empower individuals to celebrate their uniqueness here at InstaDeep. Our team comes from all walks of life, and we’re proud to continue encouraging and supporting applicants from underrepresented groups across the globe. Our commitment to creating an authentic environment comes from our ability to learn and grow from our diversity, and how better to experience this than by joining our team? We operate on a hybrid work model with guidance to work at the office at least 2 to 3 days per week to encourage close collaboration and innovation. We are continuing to review the situation with the well-being of InstaDeepers at the forefront of our minds.
Right to work: Please note that you will require the legal right to work in the location you are applying for.
