Staff Research Scientist

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Palo Alto for our hybrid working model.

We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to join our team and contribute to the development of next-generation AI models. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of machine learning research and practical deployment of large neural networks.

This role can be based out of our Palo Alto office, or remotely in the United States.

- Conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, from frontier LLMs to embedding models and rerankers

- Innovate in next-generation information retrieval and LLM agent paradigm

- Collaborate closely with other research scientists and research engineers as well as peers across the organization

- A track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications in top venues

- Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing

- Experience building complex neural networks for language and visual understanding

- Capable of conducting rigorous empirical studies to validate theoretical results

- Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills

- Opportunity to work on real-world problems at the cutting edge of AI research

- Opportunity to utilize research vision to innovate the entire company and make real-world impact

- Exposure to the full lifecycle of AI model development, from research to production

- Our compensation (base + equity) for this position is competitive with frontier AI labs