Description: You will be working with PI Greg Durrett and his students as part of the TAUR lab at NYU ( https://cims.nyu.edu/taur/ ). You are expected to collaborate within the lab, contributing to existing projects and helping to lead new ones, to produce strong research in the form of published papers, code releases, and blog posts. Specific topics will be decided on in consultation between you, the PI, and the PI’s PhD students. Broad topics of potential projects include LLM reasoning, LLM creativity, limitations of current scaling paradigms, AI for science, and more.

You will have access to compute resources in PI Durrett’s lab including the NYU Torch and Greene clusters, Empire AI, cloud providers, and APIs for running inference with frontier models.

As part of the broader NYU community, you will have opportunities to collaborate with other faculty, postdocs, PhD students, MS students, and undergraduate students.

Required qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
• Strong publication record in NLP, ML, or related areas

Preferred qualifications:

• Strong engineering skills, including the modern LLM infrastructure stack
• Strong communication, teamwork, and leadership skills.

Location: In-person at NYU’s Washington Square campus in New York City.

Time: The position is initially for one year, with an expected renewal for a second year based on performance.

How to Apply: Application is on Interfolio; link to be posted soon. Apply by Feb 1, 2026 for priority consideration. This position will remain open until it is filled. You will need the following documents:

• Cover letter describing why you are interested in this position and how your skills and experience match the position and qualifications described above.
• Curriculum Vitae, including a list of publications (link to webpage / Google Scholar is accepted)
• Research statement summarizing past work and current/future research interests
• List of three references who could write a letter of recommendation on your behalf (letters themselves not needed)

If interested, you can email Greg your CV with the subject line "TAUR Postdoc 2026 Application" to be notified when the application is posted.