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    Back-End Developer - Cambridge, United States - IBM

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    Introduction
    At IBM, work is more than a job - it's a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible.

    Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.


    Your Role and Responsibilities

    The Data and Model Factory team in Cambridge is looking for a talented and highly motivated engineer to help advance our effort on creating the most efficient foundation models.

    The candidate will be responsible for conducting cutting-edge research on natural language processing, developing prototype solutions to real-world problems, working closely with top-notch MIT faculty, students, and IBM scientists in a flexible and fun environment.


    Required Technical and Professional Expertise
    We seek an engineer to refine and standardize our large language model training procedures.

    This role is crucial for enhancing our existing framework, encompassing a broad spectrum of tasks from dataset preprocessing to large-scale distributed training techniques such as fine-tuning, contrastive fine-tuning, RLHF, RLAIF, EvolInstruct, AutoGen, etc.

    The candidate will be instrumental in developing tools and scripts that streamline the entire alignment pipeline, ensuring efficiency and consistency.

    This position addresses our current need for expertise in model training, experimentation, standardizing reporting results, and integrating robust DevOps and MLOps practices.

    The engineer will be responsible for supporting all tooling and software engineering efforts to standardize and optimize the alignment pipeline.

    They should be able to interpret machine learning research and translate it into reliable, maintainable software.

    Additionally, the role involves developing specialized pipelines for various tasks, such as building RLHF pipelines with unit test-based rewards for low-resource languages and creating effective LLM-generated data pipelines.

    The ideal candidate will have a passion for programming languages, enabling them to tailor data generation and training pipelines to specific languages, and if applicable, leverage webapp development skills for creating frameworks to collect human data and deploy models in user-centric platforms.


    Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
    Strong programming skills. Experience with machine learning tools and frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch etc. Experience with large language models.

    About Business Unit IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners.

    As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities.

    We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing.

    Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

    Your Life @ IBM In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

    Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.


    Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company.

    They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers.

    The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

    Are you ready to be an IBMer?
    About IBM IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer.

    We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

    Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

    At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain.

    Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.


    Location Statement IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program.

    Eligible employees may have access to:

    • Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
    • Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long
    • term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
    • Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
    • Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
    • Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year. This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role. We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

    Being You @ IBM IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer.

    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.

    IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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