Zoom · 12 hours ago
Research Scientist
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$177K/yr - $388K/yrZoom is a leading collaboration platform, and they are seeking a Research Scientist to join their GenAI Science Team. The role focuses on developing proprietary large language models to enhance AI Companion features and improve model performance in a collaborative environment.
CollaborationInformation TechnologyMessagingSaaSVideo Conferencing
Responsibilities
Conducting research and development on large language models to support Zoom’s AI Companion and meeting intelligence features
Designing and implement model training pipelines, including data creation, filtering, and evaluation workflows
Collaborating with cross-functional teams of scientists, engineers, and product managers to translate research into production-ready solutions
Exploring and apply advanced post-training techniques such as RLHF, RLVR, and reward modeling
Developing evaluation systems and benchmarks to measure model quality, human alignment, and task performance
Contributing to the development of agentic AI systems capable of tool usage, function calling, and multi-modal understanding
Qualification
Required
Possess a master's degree or PHD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems, or a related field
Have publications in top-tier AI conferences (e.g., ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI)
Have proficiency in Python, PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers (required); Verl and Megatron
Have LLM post-training techniques such as RLHF, RLVR, reward modeling
Have experience in building evaluation systems and benchmarks for AI models, including human-aligned metrics and annotation quality management
Demonstrate advanced agent systems with function calls or tool usage
Be able to handle long-context modeling or retrieval-augmented generation
Benefits
A variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways.
Company
Zoom
Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
Founded in 2011
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$276MKey Investors
ARK Investment ManagementSequoia CapitalEmergence Capital
2021-11-04Post Ipo Equity· $130M
2019-04-19Post Ipo Equity
2019-04-18IPO
Leadership Team
Eric Yuan
Founder & CEO
Xuedong Huang
Chief Technology Officer
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