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Research Engineering Lead

Sweden, Stockholm · Job Posted June 30, 2026
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We’re looking for a hands-on research and engineering leader to get the best performance out of commercial and open source frontier models, in order to power the future of AI software engineering. You’ll own experiments end-to-end—from dataset design to model alignment and performance optimization. Must be curious, experimental, and obsessed with squeezing the most out of models.

Job Responsibility

  • Build the most powerful ensemble of LLMs into lovable products
  • Design and execute experiments grounded in real coding and product use cases
  • Define, track and optimize product-centric LLM performance metrics
  • Partner with engineering leads to hire and hone a world-class team
  • Own training pipelines, distillation workflows, and synthetic data generation systems
  • Work closely with infra and product engineers to scale and ship model improvements

Requirements

  • Led or contributed to cutting-edge LLM research at top AI labs
  • Fine-tuned large-scale transformer models on datasets including code, natural language, and multimodal inputs
  • Developed state-of-the-art models for code generation
  • Designed high-quality experiments and have strong sense for effective evaluation
  • A natural leader obsessed with building the best technical team in the world
  • Mentored team of researchers / engineers, and led collaborative projects across research, engineering, and product teams

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Published at top ML/AI conferences on LLMs, code intelligence, or agentic reasoning

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