Location: Remote - India
A Moving Experience.
We are looking for a scientist to be a part of XUI- Cerence's conversational AI platform using large language models including multimodal (both on Edge and in cloud).

What You Will Work On

Design and trainlarge‑scaletransformer and hybrid foundation models
Diagnose and resolvetraining instabilities at scale
Navigate scaling tradeoffs across data, compute, and architecture
Define the technical direction fornext‑generationmodels

Core Responsibilities

Deep Learning & Transformer Foundations

Apply strong fundamentals in deep learning and representation learning

Design andmodifytransformer architectures, including

Attention variants

RoPE,ALiBi

Grouped Query Attention (GQA)

Mixture‑of‑Experts(MoE)

Build modelsfrom first principles, not just adaptpre‑existingcodebases

Optimization Dynamics & Training Stability

Own optimizer and scheduler choices, including

AdamW

Lion

Adafactor

Learning‑rateand warmup schedulers

Understand and debug

Optimizer instability

Gradient pathologies

Scaling Laws & Compute Tradeoffs

Apply andvalidatescaling laws

NavigateChinchilla‑stylecompute vs data tradeoffs

Loss Functions & Alignment

Design and experiment with loss functions including

Next‑tokenprediction

Contrastive objectives

RLHF,DPO,GRPO

Distributed Foundation Model Training

Design and executelarge‑scaletraining using

FSDP

ZeRO‑3

Tensor parallelism

Pipeline parallelism

Apply

Mixed precision (bf16,fp8)

Gradient checkpointing

Partner closely with ML systems teams whileretainingarchitectural ownership

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications. Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

All prospective and current Employees need to remain vigilant when it comes to executing security policies in the workplace. This includes:

Following workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
Following security procedures to report any suspicious activity.
Having respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
Adhering to company's compliance and regulations.
Encouraging to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.
Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).
Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.

Senior AI scientist