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      "text": "Key Responsibilities",
      "content": "\n<li>Lead research and implementation of reasoning-enhanced LLM capabilities through novel data collection, architecture design, and system integration.</li>\n<li>Design and implement pipelines to collect, curate, and structure open-source and web-scale data relevant to reasoning tasks, ensuring scalability and reproducibility.</li>\n<li>Build robust software to support fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment of LLMs that interact with structured and unstructured knowledge bases.</li>\n<li>Collaborate with ML researchers to create, test, and evaluate new approaches in information retrieval, agentic search, and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines.</li>\n<li>Rapidly prototype tools, APIs, and infrastructure for enabling LLMs to reason over external information, and build datasets for identifying and analyzing LLM failure modes.</li>\n<li>Communicate research findings in internal documents and external publications (e.g., top-tier conferences like ACL, ICLR, NeurIPS).</li>\n<li>Contribute to design/code reviews and foster engineering best practices in a high-performance research environment.</li>\n<li>Represent MBZUAI at conferences and forums, promoting institutional leadership in safe, efficient, and high-impact AI systems.</li>\n<li>Perform all other duties as reasonably directed by the line manager that are commensurate with these functional objectives.</li>\n"
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      "text": "Academic Qualifications",
      "content": "\n<li>Master’s in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience required.</li>\n<li>PhD or equivalent research experience in Machine Learning, NLP, or Data Science with a focus on reasoning and LLMs preferred.</li>\n"
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      "text": "Minimum Professional Experience",
      "content": "\n<li>Experience working with large language models, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and multi-modal interaction.</li>\n<li>Strong Python development skills with a focus on research-grade code and scalable data pipelines.</li>\n<li>Familiarity with collecting and processing large-scale datasets from open-source and web resources.</li>\n<li>Demonstrated ability to work with ML infrastructure (e.g., model evaluation, optimization, debugging).</li>\n<li>Proactive mindset with the ability to identify impactful research questions and execute on them with minimal supervision.</li>\n<li>Effective communication and collaboration skills for working in cross-functional teams.</li>\n"
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      "text": "Preferred Professional Experience",
      "content": "\n<li>Experience designing and deploying agentic LLM systems, reasoning benchmarks, or RAG pipelines.</li>\n<li>Background in building complex knowledge retrieval systems (e.g., knowledge graphs, semantic search, indexing).</li>\n<li>Strong publication record in leading AI conferences (e.g., ICLR, ACL, NeurIPS, EMNLP).</li>\n<li>Familiarity with performance constraints in production environments and the trade-offs in model and data design.</li>\n<li>Prior contributions to open-source ML research or data tools.</li>\n"
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