Senior AI scientist
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Job description
A Moving Experience.
We are looking for a scientist to be a part of XUI- Cerence's conversational AI platform using large language models including multimodal (both on Edge and in cloud).
What You Will Work On
Design and trainlarge‑scaletransformer and hybrid foundation models
Diagnose and resolvetraining instabilities at scale
Navigate scaling tradeoffs across data, compute, and architecture
Define the technical direction fornext‑generationmodels
Core Responsibilities
Deep Learning & Transformer Foundations
Apply strong fundamentals in deep learning and representation learning
Design andmodifytransformer architectures, including:
Attention variants
RoPE,ALiBi
Grouped Query Attention (GQA)
Mixture‑of‑Experts(MoE)
Build modelsfrom first principles, not just adaptpre‑existingcodebases
Optimization Dynamics & Training Stability
Own optimizer and scheduler choices, including:
AdamW
Lion
Adafactor
Learning‑rateand warmup schedulers
Understand and debug:
Optimizer instability
Gradient pathologies
Scaling Laws & Compute Tradeoffs
Apply andvalidatescaling laws
NavigateChinchilla‑stylecompute vs data tradeoffs
Loss Functions & Alignment
Design and experiment with loss functions including:
Next‑tokenprediction
Contrastive objectives
RLHF,DPO,GRPO
Distributed Foundation Model Training
Design and executelarge‑scaletraining using:
FSDP
ZeRO‑3
Tensor parallelism
Pipeline parallelism
Apply:
Mixed precision (bf16,fp8)
Gradient checkpointing
Partner closely with ML systems teams whileretainingarchitectural ownership
Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and ) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.
As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in the workplace. This includes:
- Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
- Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
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- Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
- Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.
- Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).
- Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.
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