Senior Researcher (Machine Learning)

Our Client is a AI start-up company. You will own the research and intelligence direction for our core system. Your mission is to define how our AI reasons, evaluates, and continuously improves within a high-frequency production environment. This is a role for a pragmatic visionary who shapes early product intelligence by blending research rigor with real-world application.

What You'll Do

• Steer Core Intelligence Direction: Define and evolve the research roadmap for core AI capabilities, including context representation, memory, reasoning, planning, and orchestration.
• Architect vs. Leverage Decision-Making: Determine when to design proprietary model architectures versus adapting and fine-tuning frontier commercial or open-source models.
• Build Pragmatic Evaluation Frameworks: Establish robust evaluation guardrails that prioritize real-world usefulness, safety, and long-term behavioral reliability o...