Post-doctoral Fellow / Research Associate / Research Assistant (multiple positions)

Job Posting Details

HKUST is building a research center on Generative AI (HKGAI Center) and we are seeking highly motivated researchers to join our dynamic team focused on the development of large language models (LLMs) and their application in various subjects.

The appointees will have the opportunity to participate in the whole product life cycle of research and development.



Responsibilities
Specific duties vary according to projects and the applicants’ expertise, including academic research, prototype building, technology productization, project management, as well as HKGAI activities.



Some ongoing R&D lines include:

Data curation for LLMs, including data acquisition, deduplication, toxicity and bias control, data blending and augmentation, and so on;

Building of LLMs, including pre-training, continual learning, MoE, peft, SFT, hallucination alleviation, human alignment, and so on; and

LLM applications, including domain specific LLMs, LLM agents applications, and so on.

Requirements:
The appointees should have:

A Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or related science or engineering areas; (a doctorate degree is a must for Post-doctoral Fellow/Research Associate positions);

A deep understanding and extensive experience in one or more LLM-related areas such as data curation, pre-training, fine-tuning, quantization, prompt engineering, rlhf, explainable AI, etc.;

Proficiency in one or more LLM related R&D framework such as megatron, deepspeed, trlX, lora, peft, ColossalAI and so on;

Proficiency in academic research in related areas with a proven track record of publications;

Proficiency in scripting or programming languages, including but not limited to C/C++, Python, Shell, and knowledge of data structures;

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as a passion for solving challenging problems; and

Industry experience or related product knowledge is a plus.

(Duration: 1 – 3 years, renewable)

Starting salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Fringe benefits including annual leave, medical and dental benefits will be provided.



Application Procedure
Interested applicants are requested to send their CV to Dr. Caleb Cao() with subject [HKGAI-RA-Application].

Review of applications will continue until the positions are filled.



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HKUST is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to our core values of
inclusiveness, diversity, and respect.

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