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Applied AI Scientist

Demandbase· Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, California)$206k - $310kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior individual contributor role focusing on design and deployment of AI-driven reasoning, retrieval, and orchestration systems for production use, with research-informed product impact.

Responsibilities

  • Design grounding and context assembly: retrieval pipelines, context selection, query understanding.
  • Improve orchestration and reasoning across multi-step workflows: tool use, routing, decomposition, evaluation.
  • Build structured representations that help the system reason over accounts, people, and activity.
  • Bring research-grade rigor to ambiguous problems, then translate it with engineering into reliable, production-ready capabilities. You won't be a full-time SWE, but you write real code that holds up in production.
  • Raise technical rigor: share patterns, mentor, and accelerate decisions across teams.

Qualifications

  • PhD in CS, ML, NLP, IR, or a related field.
  • 7+ years in applied ML, NLP, IR, or ranking (research-track and graduate work can count toward depth), with recent hands-on ownership of LLM and agentic systems.
  • Shipped LLM or RAG-style systems into production and personally owned their reliability, latency, and monitoring at scale.
  • Built and owned agentic or multi-step orchestration (tool use, routing, planning), not just prototypes or demos.
  • Strong coding ability and real comfort in a production codebase.
  • Solid experimentation and evaluation rigor: offline evals, A/B testing, causal thinking.
  • IC5 signals: set technical direction across teams, owned architecture, and operated as a peer-level influence, not just a strong executor.

Skills

Required:PhD in CS, ML, NLP, IR, or related fieldApplied ML/NLP/IR/RankingLLM / RAG-style systemsAgentic/multi-step orchestrationProduction code proficiencyExperimentation & evaluation rigor
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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