Senior Applied AI Research Engineer (R&D) at Flatgigs

Flatgigs is recruiting for a client's Research and Development team. The Senior Applied AI Research Engineer works at the model and algorithm level, not mainly on wiring existing AI APIs into apps.

Key responsibilities

• Do applied research in AI, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and NLP
• Review, reproduce and implement methods from research papers
• Design and run experiments to evaluate models and training approaches
• Train and optimise models, including LLM fine-tuning and reinforcement learning
• Turn research concepts into working AI implementations

Requirements

• Master's or PhD in AI, ML, Computer Science, Robotics or a related field
• Experience in an AI research lab or R&D engineering team
• Hands-on LLM post-training: SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF or GRPO
• Experience with reinforcement learning frameworks

Nice to have

• Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT, TRL, Weights & Biases

Location and schedule

• Islamabad, hybrid

Salary and benefits

The posting does not give a salary figure.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.