Senior Research Scientist (LLMs)

About Aldea

Aldea is a multi-modal foundational AI company reimagining the scaling laws of intelligence. We believe today's architectures create unnecessary bottlenecks for the evolution of software. Our mission is to build the next generation of foundational models that power a more expressive, contextual, and intelligent human–machine interface.

The Role We are hiring a Foundational AI Research Scientist (LLMs) to pioneer next-generation large-language-model architectures. Your work will focus on designing, prototyping, and empirically validating efficient transformer variants and attention mechanisms that can scale to production-grade systems.

You'll explore cutting-edge ideas in efficient sequence modeling, architecture design, and distributed trainingbuilding the foundations for Aldea's next-generation language models. This role is ideal for researchers who combine deep theoretical grounding with hands-on systems experience.

What You'll Do

• Research and prototype sub-quadratic attention architectures to unlock efficient scaling of large language models.
• Design and evaluate efficient attention mechanisms including state-space models (e.g., Mamba), linear attention variants, and sparse attention patterns.
• Lead pre-training initiatives across a range of model scales from 1B to 100B+ parameters.
• Conduct rigorous experiments measuring the efficiency, performance, and scaling characteristics of novel architectures.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to integrate models into production systems.
• Stay at the forefront of foundational research and help shape Aldea's long-term model roadmap.

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Compensation & Benefits

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