Principal AI Scientist

Cerence Inc.

📍 United States, United States, United States

Full time Computer Occupations Posted February 26, 2026

Job Description

A Moving Experience.

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams comprising agentic AI scientists, software engineers, and domain experts. By understanding their requirements, you will collaboratively develop customized LLM solutions.
  • Innovate and enhance existing CaLLM to lead the bleeding edge of Generative AI, thereby ensuring optimal performance and speed even on resource-constrained platforms.
  • Stay fully abreast of the latest advancements, trends, and research in the realms of generative AI, ASR, and language modeling, actively incorporating new techniques, technologies, and best practices to continually enhance the overall performance of our systems.
  • What You Bring

  • Extensive experience and demonstrated mastery in developing LLMs: Finetuning, distillation, layer pruning and building new multimodal LLMs.
  • Well versed with commercial deployments, post-deployment support, model-profiling and optimization n...