Research Scientist, LLM Pretraining
Tencent AI Lab
- Location
- Shenzhen
- Level
- Senior Research Scientist
- Posted
- 5 Sep 2026
ResearchSenior Research ScientistOn-siteActive
Original posting
Skills
- Pretraining
- LLM
- Data
- PyTorch
- Scaling laws
Summary
Tencent AI Lab in Shenzhen is hiring a research scientist for LLM pretraining. The group studies data mixtures, training stability, and the small-scale proxies that predict a large run. You will own a pretraining question, run controlled ablations, and write the report that decides the next mixture. The role is on site in Nanshan. Requirements: research experience in large-scale training or language modeling, PyTorch, and a paper or a substantial internal equivalent.
Full description
Tencent AI Lab in Shenzhen is hiring a research scientist for LLM pretraining. The group studies data mixtures, training stability, and the small-scale proxies that predict a large run.
You will own a pretraining question, run controlled ablations, and write the report that decides the next mixture. The role is on site in Nanshan.
Requirements: research experience in large-scale training or language modeling, PyTorch, and a paper or a substantial internal equivalent.