Compressing a large 'teacher' model into a smaller 'student' that mimics its outputs — preserving quality while cutting inference cost.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: pre-training and serving infrastructure.
As of today, 7 active AI roles across 6 companies in our index reference Distillation. Hiring concentrates at the post-training (57%) and serving infrastructure (29%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, Semiconductors, Multimodal.
Compressing a large 'teacher' model into a smaller 'student' that mimics its outputs — preserving quality while cutting inference cost. Primary AI lifecycle stage: pre-training and serving infrastructure.
7 active AI roles across 6 companies in our index reference Distillation as of today.
The companies with the most active Distillation listings are: Amazon (2 roles), Black Forest Labs (1 role), ByteDance (1 role), Intel (1 role), Netflix (1 role).
Distillation primarily belongs to the pre-training and serving infrastructure stages of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Distillation roles concentrate at: post-training (57%), serving infrastructure (29%).
The sectors with the most active Distillation hiring are: Big Tech, Semiconductors, Multimodal.
6 AI roles tagged distillation.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Research Scientist, ML Efficiency, Google Research | Big Tech | 9 | Inference infra · Model serving · Fine-tuning · Frontier research · Quantization | |
| ByteDance | Sr. Research Engineer/Scientist (all levels), Efficient Models | Big Tech | 9 | Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal · Vision · Quantization |
| Netflix | Research Scientist 4 - Machine Learning and Inference Research, LLM Post-Training | Big Tech | 9 | RL post-training · Fine-tuning · Tool use |
| Amazon | Applied Scientist, SSG Science | Big Tech | 8 | Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Quantization |
| Amazon | Sr. Applied Scientist, SSG Science | Big Tech | 8 | Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Quantization |
| Amazon | Research Scientist, SSG Science | Big Tech | 8 | Inference infra · Quantization |