LLM Research Consultant

Sony Research India is driving cutting-edge research and development in various locations around the globe, including laboratories in Japan, the United States, Europe, and Asia. We endeavor to create new technology, products, and services while sustaining Sony Group’s diverse businesses in electronics, entertainment, and financial fields. For our research centre to blaze a trail in the latest technologies, we seek to foster the growth of a diverse pool of research and engineering talent and create a technology talent bank to drive research excellence worldwide. Sony Research India is offering outstanding career opportunities around frontline technologies such as AI and data analytics.

What we are looking for:

• We are looking for a highly motivated research consultant who can assist in our research and development efforts on user engagement foundation model. The ideal candidate should have prior experience in Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contributing to developing and evaluating models (including user engagement foundation model) leveraging pre-trained LLMs.
• Blending together LLM language understanding and personalization of recommendation models.
• Work closely with other research scientists, engineers, and product teams fostering a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment.
• Contribute to million of Indian Sony LIV users towards improving their experience by leveraging AI capabilities.
• Contribute to the research community by sharing insights and participating in external academic workshops and conferences.

Work Location:

• Remote within India

Duration of the paid one year contract:

• The annual paid direct contractual tenure is extendable.
• Ideally this position will start from first week September 2025.
• The working hours are from 9:00 to 18:00 (Monday to Friday) full-time.

Essential Education:

• Ph.D. or Masters in Computer Science or similar background.

Skills required:

Essential Skills:

• A strong background in deep learning, both in terms of conceptual understanding, as well as practical experience.
• Understanding about current start of the art machine learning literature.
• Strong knowledge and interest in LLMs (fine-tuning, training and using LLMs).
• Highly skilled in Python and one or more popular deep learning framework.
• Ability to envision new ideas and proving them through theory and/or experiments.

Good to have Skills:

• 0-1 year work experience in LLM/NLP projects within a start up environment.
• Knowledge of working on AWS cloud is desirable.
• Good publication record, with publications in major machine learning conferences (e.g. AAAI, SIGIR, KDD, RecSys, WSDM, NeurIPS, ICDM, ICML, ECML, etc.).

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Sony Research India is committed to equal opportunity in all its employment practices, policies and procedures and to ensuring that no worker or potential worker will receive less favourable treatment due to any characteristic protected under applicable local laws.