AI Researcher — Distillation
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About the Role We’re looking for an AI Researcher focused on model distillation to help us push the frontier of efficient, high-performance models. You’ll work on turning large, expensive models into smaller, faster, and more deployable systems—while maintaining or improving quality. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys publishing research , working close to real systems, and seeing their ideas move from papers → code → production. What You’ll Work On Design and evaluate model distillation techniques (teacher–student training, self-distillation, layer-wise distillation, representation matching, etc.) Research tradeoffs between model size, latency, memory, and accuracy Develop novel distillation approaches for: Large language models Long-context or specialized architectures Inference-constrained environments Run large-scale experiments and ablations; analyze results rigorously Collaborate with engineers to productionize research outcomes Write and submit research papers to top-tie
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Featherless AI
on Himalayas