Founding Research Scientist, Applied AI

What you'll do

• Own research problems from formulation and experimentation through validation and product application.
• Develop models, algorithms, training approaches, datasets, and evaluations; partner with engineering to productionize successful research.
• Help set the research agenda and establish rigorous evidence that research improves product and marketplace outcomes.

What they ask for

• PhD in machine learning, AI, computer science, statistics, or a related field, with original ML research shown through peer-reviewed publications or comparable contributions.
• Depth in one or more relevant areas, such as foundation models, multimodal learning, recommendation and ranking, reinforcement learning, causal inference, or optimization.
• Experience applying research to products or production systems and translating results into measurable product improvements.
• Strong implementation skills, experience with large datasets and modern ML stacks, and ability to collaborate on productionization.

Pay

$195K – $400K (base salary)

Tools

LLMs

AI focus

Research and build multimodal AI, foundation-model and agent applications, ranking and recommendation systems, and learning loops for campaign planning, creator-brand matching, content understanding, and optimization. Use proprietary data for prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, post-training, and specialized model training where appropriate.