Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems Job at Distyl AI (San Francisco)

AI Research Engineer

We're seeking a Research Engineer to conduct innovative research in key AI areas...

Location

United Kingdom

Salary:

Not provided

Prolific

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

5+ years of engineering experience with significant AI/ML focus
Demonstrated research experience through publications, open-source contributions, or impactful projects
Strong engineering fundamentals and experience implementing AI systems in production environments
Deep knowledge of LLM evaluation methodologies, alignment techniques, and model optimization approaches
Experience with model fine-tuning, adapters, quantization, and distillation frameworks
Self-motivation and ability to define and pursue research directions independently
Excellent understanding of current challenges in AI safety, reliability, and alignment
Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex research concepts clearly
Passion for staying current with the rapidly evolving AI research landscape

Job Responsibility

Lead independent research projects in AI evaluation methodologies, alignment techniques, and synthetic data generation
Design and implement novel evaluation frameworks for LLMs and agent systems that are grounded in human data
Contribute to the academic AI community through publications and open-source contributions
Stay at the forefront of AI research and pioneer innovative approaches to tackle pressing open challenges in the field
Design and conduct rigorous experiments to study AI models and systems with sound methodological approaches
Develop scalable frameworks for systematic evaluation of model behaviours and capabilities
Create tools and frameworks that transform research insights into practical applications
Build infrastructure to support large-scale research experiments when needed
Apply knowledge of model fine-tuning, optimization techniques, distillation, and other ML engineering practices to support research goals
Work closely with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams to translate research insights into practical applications

What we offer

competitive salary
benefits
remote working
impactful, mission-driven culture

Sr. Applied Research Scientist

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We bel...

Location

United States

Salary:

280000.00 - 380000.00 USD / Year

Runway

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

4+ years of relevant ML engineering or research experience
Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code
Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity
Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application
Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers
Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Job Responsibility

Lead efforts in pretraining the next generation of Runway’s multimodal models

Fulltime

Applied Research Lead, Reinforcement Learning

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We bel...

Location

United States

Salary:

280000.00 - 380000.00 USD / Year

Runway

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

4+ years of relevant engineering or research experience in applying reinforcement learning to align language, image, and/or video generation models
Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code
Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity
Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application
Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers
Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Job Responsibility

Lead efforts in applying reinforcement learning based techniques to improve the quality and controllability of the models that power Runway’s research and tools

Fulltime

Principal Applied Researcher AI/NLP

At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional c...

Location

United States

Salary:

195800.00 - 217500.00 USD / Year

PointClickCare

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD or comparable level of experience in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering or a related field
4-10+ year industry experience building solutions in commercial SaaS, including at least 4 years working in applications of NLP, Search or AI/ML technologies for healthcare
Strong interest in applying AI/ML/NLP to healthcare related problems and data
Expert-level practical, hands-on experience developing and applying a wide range of techniques in Natural Language Processing, including fine tuning of LLMs and other Transformer models, plus one or more additional AI/ML or Search related areas of expertise to solve real-world problems at scale
Demonstrated ability to lead and perform research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods, and frameworks, as well as tasks such as feature selection, language modeling, evaluation and fine tuning or training models, applying standard approaches or developing new tools or workflows as needed to meet project requirements
Significant experience building and deploying AI/machine learning and NLP models for large-scale SaaS products, including familiarity with industry standard software development concepts such as scaling issues, version control, CI/CD pipelines, and security
Solid understanding and experience with transformer models and multiple kinds of NLP and ML models and approaches including logistic regression, random forest, ensemble methods, SVM, KNN, reinforcement learning, and other ML techniques
Proficiency in Python and Java required. Proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and modern UI frameworks for building prototype or tool front ends desired
Proficiency doing data engineering for ML and NLP applications, including exposure to database systems and proficiency with SQL
Proficiency building models from big data using modern packages, models and data analysis stacks such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, Keras, LightGBM, fastText, NLTK, and spaCy. Proficiency fine tuning Hugging Face Transformers required

Job Responsibility

You will be applying NLP including GenAI and other AI/ML techniques to develop model systems and solutions, collaborating across functions to scale and integrate advanced solutions into successful end user experiences in large-scale cloud based SaaS production environments for healthcare
You will be working with product leaders, clinical informaticists, data scientists, UI/UX researchers and designers, other AI and machine learning and domain experts, engineering teams and others, including work with customers and users who are healthcare professionals
Design, build and evaluate solutions that may involve structured or unstructured data including speech or natural language for healthcare use cases, delivering capabilities such as summarization, predictive models, recommenders, semantic search, extraction, classification or other NLP, AI or machine learning based techniques
You will be performing research and experimentation to select appropriate approaches, algorithms, evaluation methods and frameworks and doing the R&D to deliver model systems
You will perform, oversee and assist in data collection, data cleaning, data analysis, algorithm selection or design, prompt tuning, parameter fine tuning, training, development and evaluation of systems that deliver responsible AI solutions at scale, using existing or developing new tools or workflows as needed
As a principal applied researcher, you will bring deep technical expertise and also provide mentorship on advanced AI, NLP, data science, statistical and machine learning methods and technologies, helping the organization develop new capabilities for innovative solutions
You will have substantial independence and responsibility from day one

What we offer

Benefits starting from Day 1
Retirement Plan Matching
Flexible Paid Time Off
Wellness Support Programs and Resources
Parental & Caregiver Leaves
Fertility & Adoption Support
Continuous Development Support Program
Employee Assistance Program
Allyship and Inclusion Communities
Employee Recognition … and more

Fulltime

Applied Research Engineer, Agents

As an Applied Research Engineer, you will be the bridge between research, indust...

Location

United States , New York City; San Francisco

Salary:

160000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year

Hebbia

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
7+ years software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm, with a focus on applied machine learning systems
Strong programming skills in Python
Experience with NLP and text processing libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, or Apache Tika
Experience with Search and Indexing technologies
Proficient in machine learning techniques and algorithms
Experience working with foundational models and corresponding APIs
Knowledge of statistical analysis and data scraping techniques
Prior experience in developing NLP models and systems
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

Job Responsibility

Focused on LLMs, you will play a crucial role in analyzing and interpreting complex data types to derive and implement cutting edge insight generation systems
Iterate and explore new LLM and NLP techniques maintaining our foothold as an industry leader
You will utilize your expertise in statistics, programming, and machine learning to develop and deploy data-driven models and algorithms
Your work will contribute to solving business problems, improving processes, and enhancing the overall performance of the company
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve NLP/LLM capabilities in app
Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements and research in the space
Collaborate with software engineers to integrate agentic capabilities into existing systems or develop new applications
Ensure that systems are efficient, maintainable and well monitored
Iterate on validation and testing frameworks

What we offer

PTO: Unlimited
Insurance: Medical + Dental + Vision + 401K
Eats: Catered lunch daily + doordash dinner credit if you ever need to stay late
Parental leave policy: 3 months non-birthing parent, 4 months for birthing parent
Fertility benefits: $15k lifetime benefit
New hire equity grant: competitive equity package with unmatched upside potential

Fulltime

Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We bel...

Location

United States

Salary:

260000.00 - 370000.00 USD / Year

Runway

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

4+ years of relevant engineering or research experience in machine learning, computer vision and/or graphics
Expertise with programming such as Python, C++, CUDA, and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch
Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code
Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity
Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application
Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers
Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Job Responsibility

Develop cutting-edge computer vision and generative models to power creative tools
Work with backend team to bring research models to production
Work with design and frontend engineering team to ensure machine learning models work in harmony with user interfaces

Fulltime

Sr. Applied Research Scientist

We’re looking for a Sr. Applied Research Scientist to lead efforts in building l...

Location

United States

Salary:

280000.00 - 380000.00 USD / Year

Runway

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

4+ years of relevant ML engineering or research experience in language models
Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code
Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity
Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application
Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers
Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Job Responsibility

Lead efforts in building large language models and vision language models that power Runway’s research and tools, with a focus on multimodal capabilities and reasoning

Fulltime

PhD AI Research Intern

Join our cutting-edge Machine Learning Research team at Atlassian as a PhD Resea...

Location

United States , Seattle

Salary:

49.00 - 75.00 USD / Hour

Atlassian

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Completed Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field
Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or a related field at any stage of your doctoral studies
Degree completion date cannot be earlier than September 2026 - June 2027
Strong foundation in AI/ML, LLMs, modeling and/or optimization techniques
Exhibit a solid grasp of algorithms and data structures
Demonstrate proficiency in Python programming and ability to write clean, efficient, and well-documented code
Experience working with large-scale datasets, including data preprocessing, augmentation, and scaling techniques
Has expertise in managing data using Python libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, in addition to leveraging models from Hugging Face and has practical knowledge of applied machine learning and deep learning frameworks, like PyTorch
Demonstrated exposure to natural language processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV)
Familiarity with state-of-the-art research in machine learning and AI, as evidenced by relevant coursework, publications, or projects

Job Responsibility

Collaborate cross-functionally with Research Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to design, implement, and evaluate experiments that advance the performance, efficiency, and scalability of modern ML and LLM systems for our AI products
Curate, preprocess, and manage large-scale datasets for training and evaluation, ensuring data quality, diversity, and reproducibility across experiments
Conduct continued training, fine-tuning, and alignment of large language models for specialized applications such as conversational AI, summarization, generative search, and multimodal agents
Evaluate cutting-edge ML algorithms through rigorous experimentation and provide detailed analyses highlighting performance insights, failure modes, and opportunities for improvement
Contribute to publications and presentations at internal workshops or top-tier academic venues, helping to drive innovation in Enterprise AI and large-scale ML systems

What we offer

health and wellbeing resources
paid volunteer days

Applied AI Researcher, AI Systems

Distyl AI

Location:
United States , San Francisco ▼
New York

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Posted:
March 08, 2026

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