LLM Researcher
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What you need
- Hands-on LLM fine-tuning and post-training
- Strong Python and PyTorch or JAX
- Practical distributed-training experience
- Research in model behavior or preference learning
- Rigorous human evaluation and experimental design
What you'll do
- Fine-tune and post-train models for voice, character, narrative coherence
- Develop creative and behavioral preference datasets with human review
- Build creative-writing benchmarks and run preference studies
- Deploy improvements with VLM researcher and harness engineer
- Study model behavior in products with real users
Nori Robotics (YC S26) builds affordable humanoid robots. Our work connects some of the world's most novel multimodal, creative, and behavioral datasets to robots and consumer applications used by real customers. We're looking for hungry, talented, curious people to join our team.
Scope: Research and improve model behavior, with creative writing at the center. Fine-tune and post-train language models on text-based creative and behavioral preference data, then carry those improvements into consumer applications and robot interactions.
What you will work on
• Fine-tune and post-train models for voice, character, narrative coherence, conversation, and social behavior.
• Develop text-based creative and behavioral preference datasets, with clear human review and comparison criteria.
• Build creative-writing benchmarks and run preference studies, ablations, and held-out evaluations to measure behavior.
• Work with the VLM researcher and harness engineer to deploy improvements and study model behavior in products with real users.
Requirements
• Hands-on LLM fine-tuning and post-training, with strong Python and PyTorch or JAX and practical distributed-training experience.
• Research in model behavior, open-ended generation, or preference learning, with rigorous human evaluation and experimental design.
• Nice to have: creative-writing evaluation, long-context narrative consistency, preference learning, or relevant publications.
San Francisco, CA. Full time. In person.
Compensation. Base pay: $150,000-$250,000 per year. Base pay varies with job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
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About Nori
We manufacture Nori: A sub-$2000 bimanual mobile manipulator that can clean rooms, restock shelves, and fold clothes. Nori can handle basic tasks out of the box, and its software lets anyone teach Nori to automate work specific to their home or business. Nori aims to solve the robotics data bottleneck. By deploying affordable robots to customers around the world, we can gather the diverse data required to train the next generation of generalist robotic policies. Every user of Nori makes Nori smarter. Since launching 6 weeks ago we have already deployed our first robot and have over $440k+ in sales. We can bring general-purpose robotics to homes and businesses that could never afford it before. There are 132.7 million households and 8.4 million employer business locations in the U.S. At $1,688 per robot, selling just one Nori to 0.5% of them represents a $1.2B market opportunity in the U.S. alone.
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