Inworld AI
Staff / Principal Research Scientist, Models - USA
$270K–$500K
Mountain View, California, USA · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 16, 2023
- Education
- PhD in ML/NLP — or equivalent practical experience you can point to
About the job
Conduct end-to-end research on AI models and agentic systems, from framing questions and running experiments to evaluating and shipping results.
What you'll do
- Research and develop foundation models, architectures, and agentic capabilities.
- Design evaluation methods, benchmarks, and failure analyses to measure model quality.
- Own research through experimentation and, where applicable, publication and deployment.
What they ask for
- Evidence of relevant model, evaluation, or frontier AI research experience; the posting accepts varied backgrounds.
- Ability to independently frame ambiguous problems, design experiments, and build solutions.
- Research ownership spanning problem framing, experiments, and shipping results.
Nice to have
- Published research at ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, ACL, or AAAI.
- Public AI projects, open-source contributions, or a PhD in ML/NLP (or equivalent practical experience).
Pay
$270,000 - $500,000+ USD base salary
Tools
Foundation models, RL, LLM-as-judge, multimodal models, agents, tool use, test-time compute, world models
AI focus
Research and develop foundation models and agentic systems, with work spanning training, architectures, evaluation, multimodal models, and related frontier topics.
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