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Company Name
ELYZA Co., Ltd.
Job Type
1A06. [Research and Development] Research Engineer (LLM Development)
Work Detail
Expected Role and Responsibilities Research engineers will play a central engineering role in advancing research and development by building experimental infrastructure related to the learning and evaluation of large-scale foundational models, and by enabling fast and reliable hypothesis testing. Algorithm Development, Experimentation, and Analysis: Architecture improvements and optimization of learning methods to enhance model performance Experimental Pipeline Design and Development: Construction and operation of evaluation systems for additional pre-training (Continual Pre-training), post-training (SFT/RLHF, etc.) of foundational models Contribution to Productivity Improvement: Accelerating the development cycle through code quality management, experiment management, and the development of monitoring infrastructure Prototyping: Developing demos to explore practical feasibility using proprietary model APIs and in-house models Leading Research and Development: Identifying unknown research challenges in the generative AI field and presenting solutions
Ideal Profile
Required Skills 2+ years of development experience using Python Deep understanding of machine learning and deep learning fields, and 1+ year of practical experience Experience working in a team using Git/GitHub Experience with container-based development using Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Business-level communication skills in Japanese / Native-level Japanese proficiency Preferred Skills Experience implementing and operating multi-node distributed learning using FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM, etc. Experience implementing and improving Transformer architectures Experience implementing and evaluating post-training for LLM (SFT/RLHF/DPO, etc.) Experience developing web applications and API servers, etc. Experience having papers accepted or presenting at international machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, etc.) Experience winning top prizes in data analysis competitions such as Kaggle Desired Candidate Profile ELYZA's core value is "Long Term We are looking for individuals who share our "Greedy" philosophy, who can perform their duties with ownership and a strong sense of ethics, who can identify key issues and take action to move things forward even in uncertain situations, who can write code with reusability and maintainability in mind, and who are highly interested in the social implementation and practical application of their research (those whose focus is primarily on publishing papers are not a good fit).
Work Location
[Head Office Location] ◆SWT Building 5th & 6th Floor, 3-15-9 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo [Work Location] ◆Head office or home (no change allowed) *No relocation required *Full remote work is possible (residence limited to within Japan)
Phd. Stating Salary
◆Expected Annual Salary: ¥6,000,000 - ¥15,000,000
◆Monthly Salary: ¥400,000 -
*Determined based on experience and abilities
Selection Flow
Document screening → Casual interview/HR interview → First interview → Second interview → Final interview → Offer/Proposal interview * After confirming your interest in the selection process, we will conduct 1 to 3 interviews before the final interview. * During the selection process, we will conduct casual interviews and, if requested, trial work experience to facilitate mutual understanding. * You can choose between online and offline interview formats. Office tours are also possible. * We will conduct a reference check. Details will be provided once you proceed to the selection stage.