Member of Technical Staff, Modeling
Company: Boson AI
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: February 16, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description Boson AI is a startup building
large language tools for audio understanding, generation,
interaction and entertainment. Our founders, Alex Smola, Mu Li, and
a team of Deep Learning, Optimization, NLP, AutoML and Statistics
scientists and engineers are working on high quality generative AI
models for LLM, large Audio models and beyond. We are seeking
research scientists and engineers to join our team full-time in our
Santa Clara office. As part of your role, you will work on modeling
and training large audio and language models, understanding and
interpreting model behavior and aligning models to human values.
The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in machine
learning, and have motivations for developing state-of-the-art
models towards AGI. Responsibilities Design and verify novel model
architectures and training objectives. Investigate novel model
alignment algorithms. Write efficient and clean code for ML
training. Conduct large-scale experiments to verify the modeling
choices and identify improvement areas. Experience Summarize
results and clearly communicate the motivations and observations in
your work Proficiency in at least one deep learning framework, such
as PyTorch. Participation in at least one research project related
to LLM or multimodal models, e.g. experience in training or
fine-tuning them. Experience in alignment research Experience in
large-scale distributed model training Experience in writing GPU
kernels in CUDA Qualifications PhD or Master's degree with solid
scientific contributions Active GitHub repository Active scientific
track record Excellent problem-solving skills Total compensations
includes base pay, equity, and benefits. We have a 401k plan, HSA,
FSA, free food (even dried mangoes). We may use artificial
intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process,
such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing
responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not
replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made
by humans. If you would like more information about how your data
is processed, please contact us.
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