Applied Researcher Job at Aurora Innovation (Pittsburgh)

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

Applied Research Lead, Generative Audio

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 industry experience as a research scientist in multimodal, generative audio
Proven experience leading projects
High emotional intelligence and experience mentoring other researchers
Good understanding of how to communicate goals, drive the execution of projects, and inspire through others
Experience in translating product and business objectives into technical strategies
Deep interest in productionizing state of the art ML research

Job Responsibility

Lead a group of Runway's Applied ML Research team
Lead and drive the executions for new applied research projects
Work with the rest of the engineering organization to oversee the transition from research into production
Work with the Product team to initiate and work on projects that deliver clear user value

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

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

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

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

Applied Research Scientist

We are a group of research scientists and engineers building cutting edge techno...

Location

United States , Palo Alto

Salary:

166000.00 - 300000.00 USD / Year

AppLovin

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Experience working with state of the art Machine Learning/Deep Learning models to solve hard problems
Strong programming skills in Python and experience with Deep Learning frameworks (preferably PyTorch)
Strong mathematical skills, and the ability to understand and interpret data
The drive to want to make an impact on the company you work for

Job Responsibility

Building ads delivery systems that deliver the most relevant products to users and drive business results
Processing and handling tens of billions of rows of data per day, and processing one million requests per second
Integrating tabular, text, image, and video data into a cohesive system to improve ads delivery
Running large-scale A/B tests to measure results

What we offer

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