Postdoctoral Researcher in Large Language Models

About the role

Two-year postdoctoral position at the University of Turku’s Language Technology group, working on Large Language Models. The group is known for the Finnish-language Poro and Viking model families and continues to push on multilingual foundation model research. Deadline 30 June 2026.

Responsibilities

• Train and evaluate LLMs at meaningful scale on national HPC resources (LUMI).
• Focus on multilingual capabilities, especially for smaller European languages.
• Publish in ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, and ICLR.
• Mentor PhD students and contribute to open releases of models and datasets.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated track record in NLP or LLM research with first-author papers at top venues.
• Python and PyTorch proficiency; experience with distributed training (DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron-LM).
• Fluent English. Finnish, Swedish, or another European language is welcomed but not required.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with training models above 7B parameters.
• Prior contributions to open LLM ecosystems (datasets, tokenisers, evaluation suites).
• Familiarity with LUMI or comparable supercomputing platforms.

How to apply

Open the apply link and submit CV, publication list, research statement, three or four representative papers, and two reference letters via the University of Turku recruitment portal before 30 June 2026.