Preslav Nakov

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is hiring an LLM Post-Training Research Engineer / Postdoctoral Researcher at IFM, working with Prof. Preslav Nakov ’s group. The role focuses on hands-on work with open-source large language models , especially post-training and alignment methods such as SFT , instruction tuning , DPO , and RLHF . The team is looking for someone who can contribute directly to training, fine-tuning, adapting models, experiments, code, and research , not only prompt engineering. Relevant interests include machine learning , natural language processing , LLM evaluation , robustness , and alignment evaluation . Experience in Financial NLP or Arabic NLP is a plus. This opportunity is best suited to candidates with strong ML/NLP engineering experience, including large-scale experimentation and model adaptation. The post explicitly invites strong ML/NLP engineers, postdocs, or PhD graduates. How to apply: email your CV and representative work to [email protected] . Representative work can include papers, code, training pipelines, fine-tuning projects, or evaluation projects. Institution: Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates.