← All roles

Principal Applied AI Researcher - Domain- Specific Models (India)

Articul8· Applied Research
Apply on company site
Hybrid (India/Bengaluru)Full-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Lead research and strategic development of domain-specific models, overseeing the full model lifecycle from data strategy to deployment, with a focus on agentic AI systems to achieve scalable, market-impacting model superiority across Articul8’s domains.

Responsibilities

  • Set company-level technical direction for domain-specific model strategy — define how Articul8 builds, evaluates, scales, and sustains model superiority across continued pre-training, fine-tuning, post-training, and release quality standards, leveraging massively parallel agentic AI systems to compress strategic exploration cycles from months to days
  • Architect the agentic model development paradigm for the organization — design the agent-orchestrated research infrastructure (experiment orchestration, data pipeline automation, continuous evaluation, competitive benchmarking) that enables every researcher at Articul8 to operate at a fundamentally higher level of depth, breadth, and velocity than would be possible alone
  • Go deep: push the frontier of domain-specific model science — lead research on model adaptation methodology, data curation strategies, post-training methods (preference optimization, reward modeling, reasoning improvement, alignment), and training dynamics, deploying fleets of agentic systems to run exhaustive ablation studies, mixture experiments, and failure analyses in parallel
  • Go broad: shape model strategy across all of Articul8's domains and verticals — define how the company identifies, prioritizes, and enters new model domains based on technical feasibility, customer value, and strategic differentiation, using agent-driven competitive intelligence and market analysis to scan the landscape continuously
  • Define evaluation strategy as an agentic discipline — establish benchmark design, expert-grounded assessment, model failure analysis, and robustness standards, building always-on agentic evaluation harnesses that compare Articul8 models against leading open and closed alternatives and translate findings into concrete investment decisions in real time
  • Lead cross-cutting research initiatives that multiply organizational capability — ensure advances in data perception, retrieval, post-training, and runtime orchestration strengthen the model layer, orchestrating parallel agent-driven research tracks across pillars so breakthroughs in one area compound across the platform
  • Influence platform-level decisions — shape model lifecycle management, portfolio strategy, release criteria, and integration architecture, ensuring the platform is designed for humans and agentic systems to co-evolve and amplify each other
  • Mentor senior researchers and raise the ceiling on human potential — coach Staff and Senior researchers on designing agent-augmented research programs, raise the bar on technical judgment and experimental rigor, and shape hiring for researchers who are driven to redefine what's possible
  • Maintain hands-on research impact at the highest level — sustain a meaningful personal research contribution through technical work, publications, patents, and externally visible output, modeling what it means to be a world-class researcher who uses massively parallel agentic systems to achieve what was previously impossible

Qualifications

  • Education: PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field
  • Experience: 10+ years in AI/ML research with an exceptional track record of impact — models or systems you built are in production and measurably changed outcomes. 4+ years developing LLM-based systems
  • Model lifecycle mastery: Deep hands-on experience across the full model development lifecycle — continued pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, post-training alignment, and production evaluation. You've made the hard calls about when a model is ready to ship and when it isn't
  • Evaluation rigor: You have designed evaluation methodology that goes beyond leaderboard metrics — domain-expert grounded assessment, systematic error analysis, robustness under distribution shift, and readiness criteria for high-stakes deployment
  • Training at scale: Direct experience training or adapting models on large GPU clusters using distributed frameworks (DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron-LM)
  • Software engineering: Proficient in Python and PyTorch. You still write code, review code, and go deep when the problem demands it
  • Strategic leadership: You have shaped research direction at the organizational level — defining what bets to make, what to stop, and how to allocate research investment across competing priorities

Skills

Required:Domain-specific model researchAgentic/parallel experimentation
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
Articul8 logo

About Articul8

The GenAI platform that simply works.

The Domain-Specific GenAI Platform, Purpose-Built for Your Data and Mission

GenAIArtificial IntelligenceAI Platform
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Articul8