Research Scientist

We are a dedicated research lab for building, understanding, using, and risk-managing foundation models. Our mandate is to advance research, nurture the next generation of AI builders, and drive transformative contributions to a knowledge-driven economy.

Requirements

• Lead research and implementation of reasoning-enhanced LLM capabilities
• Design and implement pipelines to collect, curate, and structure open-source and web-scale data
• Build robust software to support fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment of LLMs
• Collaborate with ML researchers to create, test, and evaluate new approaches in information retrieval, agentic search, and RAG pipelines
• Rapidly prototype tools, APIs, and infrastructure for enabling LLMs to reason over external information
• Communicate research findings in internal documents and external publications
• Contribute to design/code reviews and foster engineering best practices
• Represent MBZUAI at conferences and forums

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment