AI Consultant/Advisor (Yandex, Alice ML Team)

Alice is integrated into a wide range of smart devices, including speakers, smartphones, TVs, smart home appliances, computers, and laptops. It also powers Yandex products such as Search, Maps, Browser, and Smart Assistant. To enable intelligent conversations, we build and deploy advanced ML models that understand context, predict intent, and generate human-like responses.

We are looking for an AI Consultant to help advance LLM architectures, deliver production-ready models, and improve the user experience across Alice interfaces.

Tasks that await you

Build and align LLMs

You will architect, train, and optimize large-scale LLMs for dialogue systems, from pretraining to RLHF/DPO alignment and deployment.

Advance multilingual and fast inference

You will develop methods for multilingual understanding and low-latency inference.

Boost Alice with model deployment

You will deploy models in Alice's ecosystem to improve metrics such as engagement, task success, and user satisfaction.

Scale MLOps with massive data

You will design and maintain MLOps pipelines for continuous improvement, leveraging petabyte-scale interaction data.

We expect that you

• Have shipped production LLMs with expertise in at least one of the following: pretraining 100B+ parameter models, alignment techniques (RLHF, DPO, reward modeling), or reinforcement learning for dialogue systems
• Have mastered the Python/PyTorch stack, distributed training, and ML system design
• Balance innovation with production constraints (latency, scalability)
• Critically evaluate model performance using metrics and user feedback
• Are fluent in English (reading and writing) and have HSK4-level proficiency in Chinese

Benefits

Enhanced medical insurance begins from your first month at Yandex. It covers health care services at clinics and hospitals, whether for emergency care, surgeries, routine visits in your home country or abroad, medical tests and diagnostics, dental care, accident insurance, etc.