This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a AI Researcher — Distillation based in India.
Join a highly technical research environment focused on advancing the efficiency and performance of contemporary AI models.
You will research techniques that transform large, resource-intensive models into smaller, faster, and more deployable systems without sacrificing quality.
The role combines fundamental machine learning research with hands-on experimentation and real-world engineering challenges.
You will have the opportunity to explore model distillation across large language models, long-context architectures, and inference-constrained environments.
Your work will move from research ideas and rigorous experiments into production systems with measurable impact.
You will collaborate closely with engineers while contributing to publications, technical research, and potentially open-source projects.




This opportunity is particularly suited to researchers who want meaningful ownership of their work and the ability to see their ideas deployed in practice.
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Accountabilities:
Design, implement, and evaluate advanced model distillation techniques, including teacher-student training, self-distillation, layer-wise distillation, and representation matching.
Investigate the tradeoffs between model size, latency, memory consumption, throughput, and accuracy.
Develop novel approaches to distilling large language models, long-context or specialized architectures, and models designed for inference-constrained environments.
Conduct large-scale experiments, ablation studies, and rigorous analysis to validate research hypotheses and identify meaningful improvements.
Translate research findings into practical implementations and collaborate closely with engineering teams to productionize successful approaches.
Prepare and submit research papers to leading machine learning conferences and venues such as NeurIPS,

📌 AI Researcher — Distillation (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India