WebAI
AI Research Scientist
Austin, TX · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Dec 30, 2025
- Experience
- 4+ years; graduate research may count.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Designs, trains, evaluates, and optimizes AI models and systems, researching efficiency and distributed, privacy-preserving on-device deployment and translating findings into production systems.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize models, architectures, training methods, and inference strategies for distributed AI.
- Research model efficiency and on-device deployment; build benchmarks, datasets, and experiments to evaluate performance.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate research into production and communicate and document findings.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience (can be graduate research) in machine learning research, AI model development, or related fields.
- Expertise in deep learning architectures, including transformers, CNNs, RNNs, and diffusion models; hands-on experience training and fine-tuning large-scale models.
- Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX; experience building datasets, designing experiments, and validating model performance.
- Deep understanding of optimization techniques including quantization, distillation, pruning, and hardware-aware training; bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Master’s or PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, AI, or a related field.
- Experience in distributed training, edge inference, on-device ML, generative AI, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, federated learning, publications, patents, or open-source ML projects.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, LLMs, transformers, CNNs, RNNs
AI focus
Research and development of LLMs, multimodal and diffusion models; model efficiency, quantization, compression, and on-device inference for distributed, privacy-preserving AI.
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