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Compensation
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Location
Mountain View, CA
Work Authorization
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Job overview

The Applied Scientist will implement and evaluate model adaptation approaches under real-world enterprise deployment constraints, including latency, safety, privacy, policy compliance, and compute efficiency. The posting highlights efficient hosting of large language models and parameter-efficient adapters, adaptation techniques, inference-time steering, and tooling for evaluation, debugging, or model development.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Large Language Model Hosting, nice to haveParameter-Efficient Adaptation, nice to haveInference-Time Steering, nice to haveEvaluation Tooling, nice to haveDebugging Tooling, nice to haveModel Development Tooling, nice to haveReinforcement Learning, nice to havePost-Training Methods, nice to haveDistributed ML Training, nice to haveLarge-Scale ML Training, nice to haveAI Evaluation, nice to haveAI Benchmarking, nice to haveTool Use, nice to havePlanning, nice to haveAgentic Model Behaviors, nice to haveEnterprise AI Deployment, nice to haveScalable ML Systems, nice to haveML Pipelines, nice to havePython, requiredMachine Learning Frameworks, requiredPyTorch, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's+2, Master's+1 or Doctorate, nice to haveBachelor's+5, Master's+3 or Doctorate+1, nice to haveEquivalent Experience, nice to have1+ Year Publication Experience, nice to haveOpen-Source or Production Deployment Experience, nice to have1+ Year Scalable ML Systems Experience, nice to have2+ Years Python and ML Framework Experience, nice to have

Full job description

Efficient hosting of large language models and parameter-efficient adapters Architectural or parameter‑efficient adaptation techniques Inference‑time steering or controllability approaches Tooling for evaluation, debugging, or model development Implement and evaluate adaptation approaches under real‑world enterprise deployment constraints such as latency, safety, privacy, policy compliance, and compute efficiency. Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR Doctorate in Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related experience (e.g., statistics, predictive analytics, research) OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) experience creating publications (e.g., patents, peer-reviewed academic papers). Experience contributing to open-source systems, or production deployments involving foundation model training or adaptation. Experience in one or more of the following areas: Reinforcement learning or post-training methods Distributed or large‑scale ML training systems Evaluation or benchmarking of AI systems Tool use, planning, or agentic model behaviors Deployment of AI solutions in enterprise or customer environments 1+ years of experience building scalable ML systems or pipelines for training, adapting, or deploying AI models. 2+ years of experience with Python and machine learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch or equivalent)

How this job compares

Set against the 956 open Applied Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • California median$172–260K/yr171 salary ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 193 open Applied Scientist jobs in California and 956 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Applied Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 783 postings).
Education
309 of the 956 open Applied Scientist jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.

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