WisdomAI
Research Engineer/ Applied Scientist
$250K
San Mateo · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in applied machine learning, NLP, large language models, or AI research.
- Education
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, or a related field required; PhD is a strong plus.
About the job
Develop and evaluate applied AI methods, translating research into production systems for enterprise analytics and conversational data access.
What you'll do
- Run experiments to improve NL-to-SQL, retrieval, ranking, and agentic reasoning.
- Build evaluation frameworks and prototype, validate, and productionize ML techniques.
- Evaluate emerging foundation models and translate promising research into production experiments.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in applied machine learning, NLP, large language models, or AI research, with a track record of shipping production AI systems.
- Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, or a related field.
- Deep experience with modern LLMs and agent architectures.
- Production-quality Python and experience with modern AI frameworks; ability to design rigorous evaluations and improve model cost/quality through experimentation.
Nice to have
- PhD.
- Leading AI or NLP conference publications, meaningful open-source AI contributions, or experience adapting foundation models and deploying production-scale LLM systems.
Pay
$250,000+ USD base salary
Tools
Python, LLMs, NL-to-SQL
AI focus
Applied AI research and engineering, including conversational understanding, retrieval, ranking, agentic reasoning, evaluation, fine-tuning, distillation, and productionization of foundation-model techniques.
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