Principal Applied Scientist, Foundation AI Assets (FAI)

What you'll do

• Define research directions, develop or adopt machine-learning techniques, run rigorous experiments, publish results, and translate research into practice.
• Develop frontier-quality assets for training and evaluating GenAI models and contribute to full-cycle development and maintenance.
• Lead scientific reviews, mentor and develop scientists, and participate in organizational planning and hiring.

What they ask for

• 5+ years of hands-on predictive modeling and analysis experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• Experience translating informal customer requirements into problem definitions and handling ambiguity and competing objectives.
• Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language; experience leading experienced scientists and developing junior members.

Nice to have

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in industry or academia.
• Knowledge of problem solving, algorithm design, and complexity analysis; experience creating novel algorithms, advancing the state of the art, or peer-reviewed contributions in premier journals and conferences.

Pay

198,900.00 - 269,000.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Nova, LLMs, GenAI, Java, C++, Python

AI focus

Develop software-development skills and frontier-quality training and evaluation assets for Nova foundation models; advance GenAI research and translate it into practice.