Lead AI Researcher Job at OutSystems (Menlo Park)

Lead AI Researcher

OutSystems

Location:
United States , Menlo Park

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

Join the AI Research & Solutions Group. We're looking for an engineer who builds the models, not just uses them. Someone who has trained neural networks from scratch, constructed datasets that actually work, and implemented papers before the libraries caught up. You understand AI deeply because you've debugged gradient flows at 2am and know why your loss function is misbehaving. As a Lead AI Engineer in the AI Research & Solutions group, you'll work hands-on at least 3 days a week in the office in Menlo Park, leading the development of ML systems that power enterprise AI agents—systems that reason, act, and recover across long-horizon workflows. This is not a research scientist role. This is for the engineer who wrote the code that made the paper possible—the one who turned theory into working systems that ship.

Job Responsibility:

Build & Train Models: Own the full pipeline: architecture design → dataset engineering → distributed training → production deployment
Implement state-of-the-art techniques from papers—often before official implementations exist—translating math into working PyTorch code
Build experimentation infrastructure that enables rapid iteration on architectures, training regimes, and evaluation methods
Build Agent Systems: Create orchestration loops that enable AI to reason across multi-file changes, invoke tools (compilers, test runners, debuggers), and recover from failures
Implement RL for code generation: execution-based rewards (RLVR), process supervision, reward models, and execution semantics alignment
Ship Production AI: Optimize for inference: quantization, distillation, pruning, and serving infrastructure—understanding quality/latency/cost tradeoffs
Design evaluation pipelines that catch regressions and measure what actually matters
build guardrails and monitoring for production
Define integration architecture: APIs, batching, caching, failure handling
Lead Technically: Mentor engineers on ML fundamentals, debugging techniques, and the craft of building reliable systems
Stay current with the field—read papers, run experiments, share findings, separate signal from hype

Requirements:

5+ years building AI that shipped
Trained real models: Architecture design through deployment—not fine-tuning tutorials, actual model development
Deep ML fundamentals: Backprop, attention, loss functions, optimization—at a level where you can debug them
Production engineering: Expert Python, PyTorch fluency, distributed training, GPU programming, ML infrastructure at scale
Dataset intuition: You've built datasets and can spot data issues from model behavior—you know data quality beats model size
Agent architecture: Built systems that plan, act, and adapt—agentic loops, tool-calling, multi-step reasoning pipelines

Nice to have:

Implemented papers from scratch before official code existed
Built or improved custom training infrastructure and experimentation pipelines
Worked on LLMs, diffusion models, or frontier architectures at a low level
Built RL training pipelines with non-standard rewards (execution-based, verification, process rewards)
Implemented code retrieval systems: RAG for code, AST-aware search, repository-level indexing
Worked on SWE-Bench or similar and understand what makes coding agents succeed or fail
Open-source ML contributions or published implementations
Research backgrounds—PhDs, open-source contributors, or anyone who built models behind research
Non-traditional paths from physics, math, or quantitative fields
show us models you've trained, not credentials

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Job Posted:
February 23, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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Lead AI Researcher

OutSystems

Location:
United States , Menlo Park

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
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Job Posted:
February 23, 2026

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