Company Description LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
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Job Description Hiring Team Description In the CoreAI Member Understanding team we build the intelligence layer that powers LinkedIn. Our team transforms billions of onsite and offsite signals into a dynamic understanding of over 1.3B members' professional identities, skills, and intent, fueling nearly every product across the company.
We combine LLMs, representation learning and knowledge systems with highly scalable online, nearline, and offline infrastructure to deliver real-time, high-quality intelligence at global scale.
Now, we're advancing toward AI-native Data Agents systems that reason over rich member graphs, synthesize structured and unstructured signals, and continuously improve how professional identity is modeled.
This role will be based in Sunnyvale, San Francisco or New York City.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team..
Job Description As a Staff AI Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in advancing LinkedIn's efforts in cutting-edge AI research and development, focusing on large-scale foundation models and AI innovations. You will specialize in developing, training, and optimizing foundation models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), utilizing state-of-the-art deep learning architectures such as multi-billion parameter transformers and scaling them to serve LinkedIn's global user base. Your work will involve the design and deployment of high-performance AI systems, leveraging GPUs and other hardware accelerators for large-scale training and inference.
You will collaborate with a world-class team of researchers and engineers to develop and advance the next generation of AI models to push the boundaries of AI at scale, working on complex problems such as distributed training, model parallelism, and system co-design. A successful candidate will be comfortable operating at the intersection of AI research and engineering, with a deep understanding of the latest advancements including but not limited to large model training, post-training techniques for planning and reasoning, fine-tuning strategies, reinforcement learning techniques.
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LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $170,000 - $277,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include an annual performance bonus, stock, benefits, and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit LinkedIn Benefits.
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