Introduction

　　At , 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, let's talk.

　　Your Role and Responsibilities

　　The IBM Language and Conversation research team is looking for an enthusiastic AI researcher who majored in Deep Learning NLP to help us craft the future of IBM Foundation Models and products , and push the boundaries on the state-of-the-art in language understanding, LLMs Reasoning, and Models Safety.

　　Working as part of our team means you can bring your ideas to life through the full cycle of defining the research challenge, working with real data, performing the research, and innovating to solve and implement it. You will publish your research in top conferences, deliver it, and watch it come to life in the field.

　　If you love to create innovative algorithms, are passionate about applying technology to real-life problems, think out-of-the-box, and are interested in joining a group of top researchers solving challenging problems - your place is with us!

　　Job responsibilities

　　Conduct research in the area of LLMs, advance the state of the art, and publish in top AI conferences

　　Employ prompt engineering, model selection, hyperparameter configuration, model fine-tuning, data retrieval, and code to enable your research.

　　Efficiently implement algorithms, define data sets and benchmarks and run experiments on real data

　　Develop algorithms as software components and support their integration into IBM products, environments, APIs, data pipelines and web services.

　　Take part in code reviews and ensure adherence to good engineering practices.

　　Constantly review relevant literature to identify emerging methods or technologies and current best practices

　　Follow the market, products and understand customer needs, to find innovative solutions to real customer problems.

　　Work alongside a talented team of researchers and engineers, communicate your ideas clearly and discuss scope and tradeoffs.

　　Position location relevant for both Haifa and Tel Aviv.

　　Required Technical and Professional Expertise

　　PhD or MSc in computer science or related fields

　　Excellent academic record in the fields of Natural Language Processing and GenAI

　　Deep understanding of LLMs, as well as extensive experience in diverse prompting methods, improving instructions and avoiding hallucinations.

　　Familiarity with Reasoning in the LLM domain (CoT, ReAct, ReWOO), and with LLM tooling like LangChain

　　Proven hands on experience in writing code in Python and Java

　　Innovative thinking, creativity, and self-learning

　　Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

　　Extra points for:

　　Proven engineering and coding experience

　　Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

　　About Business UnitWith more than 3,000 researchers in 12 labs located across six continents, Research brings together hundreds of researchers who possess unparalleled industry expertise to address some of the world's most challenging problems. Join us as we do pioneering work in areas such as cognitive computing, augmented intelligence, quantum computing, and blockchain, to name a few.

　　Your Life @ IBMIn 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.

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