AI That Moves the World. Careers That Move You Forward.
At Cerence AI, you’ll help transform advanced AI into trusted, real-world solutions that make complex technology – think vehicles, robots, smart manufacturing, and emerging intelligent devices – more natural, reliable, and useful. Building on decades of innovation and global deployment in automotive, we are extending our expertise into new products, markets, and intelligent systems.
As part of our global team, you’ll work alongside leading innovators, researchers, engineers, and business leaders to solve meaningful challenges and turn breakthrough ideas into technology people use every day. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible impact, help shape Cerence AI’s next chapter, and move your own career forward.
We are looking for a scientist to be a part of XUI- Cerence's conversational AI platform using large language models including multimodal (both on Edge and in cloud).
What You Will Work On
Design and train large‑scale transformer and hybrid foundation models
Diagnose and resolve training instabilities at scale
Navigate scaling tradeoffs across data, compute, and architecture
Define the technical direction for next‑generation models
Core Responsibilities
Deep Learning & Transformer Foundations
Apply strong fundamentals in deep learning and representation learning
Design and modify transformer architectures, including:
Attention variants
RoPE, ALiBi
Grouped Query Attention (GQA)
Mixture‑of‑Experts (MoE)
Build models from first principles, not just adapt pre‑existing codebases
Optimization Dynamics & Training Stability
Own optimizer and scheduler choices, including:
AdamW
Lion
Adafactor
Learning‑rate and warmup schedulers
Understand and debug:
Optimizer instability
Gradient pathologies
Scaling Laws & Compute Tradeoffs
Apply and validate scaling laws
Navigate Chinchilla‑style compute vs data tradeoffs
Loss Functions & Alignment
Design and experiment with loss functions including:
Next‑token prediction
Contrastive objectives
RLHF, DPO, GRPO
Distributed Foundation Model Training
Design and execute large‑scale training using:
FSDP
ZeRO‑3
Tensor parallelism
Pipeline parallelism
Apply:
Mixed precision (bf16, fp8)
Gradient checkpointing
Partner closely with ML systems teams while retaining architectural ownership
Cerence AI (NASDAQ: CRNC) helps people and intelligent systems work together naturally and reliably. Proven at global scale in automotive, Cerence provides the trusted interaction and action layer connecting people, machines, and intelligent systems. Its AI platform enables natural interaction and dependable action across complex real-world environments where reliability, safety, security, and performance are critical. Working with customers and partners worldwide, Cerence transforms advanced AI into trusted solutions that bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world performance.
For more information, visit www.cerence.ai.
Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
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Cerence specializes in the development and delivery of AI voice and agentic products for the automotive industry and beyond.