Research Engineering Lead

Lovable Lovable · Coding AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Engineering

Research Engineering Lead to optimize performance of frontier LLMs for AI software engineering products. Owns experiments from dataset design to model alignment and performance optimization. Focus on training pipelines, distillation, and synthetic data generation, partnering with infra and product engineers to scale and ship improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and execute experiments grounded in real coding and product use cases
  2. Define, track and optimize product-centric LLM performance metrics
  3. Partner with engineering leads to hire and hone a world-class team
  4. Own training pipelines, distillation workflows, and synthetic data generation systems
  5. Work closely with infra and product engineers to scale and ship model improvements

Skills

Required

  • LLM research
  • fine-tuning large-scale transformer models
  • code generation models
  • experiment design
  • evaluation
  • team leadership
  • mentoring
  • collaboration across research, engineering, and product

Nice to have

  • Published at top ML/AI conferences on LLMs, code intelligence, or agentic reasoning

What the JD emphasized

  • Must be curious, experimental, and obsessed with squeezing the most out of models
  • Led or contributed to cutting-edge LLM research at top AI labs
  • Developed state-of-the-art models for code generation
  • Designed high-quality experiments and have strong sense for effective evaluation
  • A natural leader obsessed with building the best technical team in the world

Other signals

  • LLM performance optimization
  • model alignment
  • dataset design
  • training pipelines
  • distillation workflows
  • synthetic data generation