NLP Research Scientist

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States

Department: US R&D

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

OPPO Research Center is seeking a passionate and innovative Research Scientist to advance our next-generation AI hardware platforms—including AI Glass/Earphone/etc.—through cutting-edge generative AI research. You will drive the design, training, and deployment of multimodal intelligence models that seamlessly integrate language, vision and action. As part of our collaborative team, you will co-design algorithms and hardware, translate research into real-world products, and publish at top-tier AI conferences.

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

• Develop LLM model with parameter number around 1 billion, with special focus on developing innovative LLM architectures for long context memory, and in-context retrieve and generation
• Develop synthetic data pipeline/creating real data pipeline for LLM training

• Develop effective methods for benchmarking, e.g., LLM-As-Judge

• Collaborate closely with hardware engineers, software developers, and product teams to integrate research prototypes into production systems

• Publish research findings in premier AI conferences (e.g., ICLR, NeurIPS)

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Master/Ph.D. in AI, Computer Science, or a related discipline, with a focus on NLP/AI

• Strong background in generative AI, with hands-on experience developing LLM

• Practical expertise in training and optimizing large language models for both cloud and edge inference

• Excellent programming skills in Python

Preferred:

• Deeply knowing the concept of LLM context, memory, RAG, and has related experiences in those topics
• Has the experience to build LLM training dataset, and benchmark, with such proved record in publications
• Experience with large language model with parameter number around 1 billion, knowing the tradeoffs in such models
• Contributions to open-source AI projects
• Strong collaborative and communication skills

Benefits

OPPO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$300,000 + bonus + long term incentives benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location.