Embedded Research Scientist
New York City, Boston$180k - $400kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Embedded Research Scientist role focusing on advancing AI research and translating breakthroughs into production systems by working directly with customers to address real-world problems across post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic modeling, and specialized architectures.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customers to identify high-impact research problems at the intersection of frontier AI capabilities and critical business needs.
- Design and execute research strategies across LLM post-training, RL, agentic modeling, and specialized model development that address customer-specific challenges.
- Prototype and scale training pipelines, experiment with model architectures, optimization techniques, and post-training strategies with rapid iteration cycles based on customer feedback.
- Conduct customer-facing evaluations at scale that demonstrate clear business value and drive adoption of AI systems in production environments.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into concrete research questions, and translate research outcomes back into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Partner closely with Applied AI Engineers to transition successful research ideas into robust, production-ready features of our Mosaic platform.
- Build trusted relationships with customer technical teams and executives, helping them understand how cutting-edge research can solve their specific problems.
- Contribute to infrastructure for high-performance distributed training and establish reusable patterns that accelerate future research and deployment.
Qualifications
- Have an MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Have depth in LLM and ML fundamentals.
- Are comfortable implementing and debugging large-scale ML systems.
- Can work directly with customers: translate business problems into research problems, communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and iterate based on customer feedback.
- Motivated by seeing your research deployed in production and creating value in critical industries including healthcare, supply chains, energy, and finance.
- Have a proven track record of execution.
- Are an excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Enjoy extreme ownership and bringing structure to evolving requirements.
- Are passionate about AI's transformative potential and bridging the gap between research and real-world deployment.
Skills
Required:MS/PhD in Computer Science, ML, or related fieldLLM and ML fundamentalslarge-scale ML systems implementationcustomer-facing communication
Benefits
- equity
- 401(k) matching
- comprehensive health and family benefits
- lunch every day
- autonomy and trust-focused culture
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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