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Research Scientist, Large Language Models
VivenIn-personFull timeSanta Clara, CA

Company Overview:

At Viven, we are pioneering the next generation of AI-powered Digital Twin solutions that help enterprises unlock the power of organizational intelligence. Our platform integrates data across ecosystems, creates actionable insights, and empowers leaders to drive innovation, efficiency, and growth.

We are reimagining the future of work by solving one of the toughest challenges for enterprises: knowledge continuity. When employees join or leave, when teams scale, or when leaders need to be in two places at once - Viven ensures memory, style, and execution carries forward. Our platform blends personalization with enterprise-grade trust and privacy.

Role Overview:

We’re seeking a Research Scientist specializing in Large Language Models (LLMs) to join our team. In this role, you’ll work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world product development. You will design, train, and optimize LLMs that enable our Digital Twins to adapt to individual styles, maintain long-term memory, and execute tasks reliably in enterprise environments.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute both novel research and production-ready innovation, directly shaping the core intelligence behind our platform.

What You’ll Do:

Research & Innovation

  • Design and advance methods in LLM fine-tuning, personalization, and memory-augmented architectures.
  • Explore approaches for grounding LLMs in enterprise knowledge graphs, workflows, and user-specific data.

Model Development

  • Develop scalable training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines for large models.
  • Investigate efficiency improvements (distillation, quantization, retrieval augmentation, MoE architectures) to reduce cost while improving accuracy.
  • Collaborate with engineering to bring research into production.

Collaboration & Impact

  • Partner with product and design to translate research breakthroughs into features that impact users directly.
  • Work with fellow researchers across NLP, ML, and cognitive modeling to advance Viven’s scientific agenda.
  • Contribute to the broader AI community through open-source, publications, or collaborations.iteration.

What You’ll Bring:

Academic & Research Background

  • PhD (or equivalent research experience) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or related field.
  • Strong publication record at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP).

Technical Expertise

  • Deep understanding of transformers, attention mechanisms, and scaling laws for LLMs.
  • Hands-on experience with pretraining, fine-tuning, RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), and instruction-tuning.
  • Strong background in optimization, evaluation metrics, and safety alignment.
  • Proficiency with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow, and familiarity with distributed training frameworks (DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron).

Mindset & Approach

  • Passion for bridging research and product impact.
  • Curiosity to explore novel ideas balanced with rigor to deliver enterprise-ready results.
  • Commitment to responsible AI and user trust, with attention to privacy, fairness, and explainability.

Why Join Viven?

  • Shape the core intelligence of a platform that is redefining work itself.
  • Collaborate with a world-class team of AI researchers, engineers, and product leaders.
  • Access to the latest compute resources and modern ML infrastructure.
  • Opportunity to see your research move from paper to product, impacting enterprises and individuals alike.
  • Be part of a culture that values curiosity, rigor, collaboration, and integrity.

Equal Opportunity Employment:

Viven is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants. We value diversity and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.

If you are passionate about AI and eager to make an impact, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join the Viven team and help us build the future of AI.