About the company
Sentient Foundation is pioneering a new era in AI, empowering communities to create Loyal AI—community-built, community-aligned, and community-owned. As a non-profit committed to advancing open-source AI technologies and building a decentralized, transparent ecosystem, we champion an Open AI economy where AI builders are key stakeholders. With AGI on the horizon, our mission is to ensure it serves humanity, not corporations. Join the revolution—because the power of AI belongs to everyone.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
📍Work part-time or full-time during the year with the core Sentient Research team 📍Conduct cutting-edge generative AI research in a fast-paced environment 📍Design new agent architectures to improve end-to-end performance of AI workflows 📍Design, run, and evaluate experiments to improve LLMs on various benchmarks 📍Execute data engineering tasks to curate data for LLM pre-training, fine-tuning, RAG 📍Integrate and evaluate models with multi-modal capabilities for different verticals 📍Read conference papers on generative AI and knowledge retrieval to understand and evaluate new research in the space 📍Replicate, evaluate, and integrate theoretical data-curation approaches, fine-tuning algorithms, and agent architectures from research papers into real products 📍Set up fine-tuning and evaluation pipelines on AWS, GCP, and other compute providers 📍Manage AI workload compute resources and monitoring, keeping track of experiments and assessing results
Required Qualifications
📍Hands-on experience in generative AI research and/or engineering, whether in industry or through academic work during the Bachelor’s / Master’s / PhD degree with corresponding published work 📍Demonstrated expertise in deep learning and transformer models 📍Mastery of Python (PyTorch, numpy, agentic frameworks) for building AI workflows, fine-tuning models, and writing evaluations 📍Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles
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