Edge AI SLM/VLM Engineer — Low-Latency, Distillation Lead

Job Summary
We are looking for a highly capable engineer/researcher to lead the R&D of

Job Summary
We are looking for a highly capable engineer/researcher to lead the R&D of Small Language Models (SLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for edge / low-latency and cost-efficient production scenarios. You will own the continuous pretraining, supervised instruction tuning (SFT) , and compression/distillation pipelines, and work closely with platform teams to deliver reliable, measurable improvements in inference efficiency, tool-use success rate, and overall model quality .
Key Responsibilities

• SLM/VLM Training: Continuous Pretraining & Instruction Tuning (SFT)
• Conduct continuous pretraining and SFT for SLMs and VLMs to improve task performance and domain adaptation.
• Build reproducible training workflows in PyTorch, including data processing, training, evaluation, and mo...