Principal Research Scientist – Scaling

Principal Research Scientist – Scaling at Databricks focuses on advancing the state of the art in large-scale machine learning, specifically in LLM training and inference efficiency. The role involves leading a research team to define and execute a roadmap for algorithmic innovations, optimization, and scaling, with a focus on post-training, RL, and inference efficiency.

Skills and focus areas

• large language models (llms)
• machine learning
• scaling
• inference efficiency
• optimization
• rl (reinforcement learning)
• algorithmic innovation
• neural network training
• low-precision techniques
• research roadmap definition
• team leadership
• systems performance