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Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon AGI
Amazon 4.7
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning and generative AI background, to focus on the development of software development skills of Nova foundational models.
As a Principal Applied Scientist, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across the organization.
You are a hands‑on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.
You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state‑of‑the‑art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads.
Key Job Responsibilities
Define key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice.
Develop long‑term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them.
Participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development.
Serve as a key scientific resource in full‑cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing, documentation, delivery, and maintenance).
Basic Qualifications
5+ years of hands‑on work in predictive modeling and analysis.
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Experience working in predictive modeling and analysis.
Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives.
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
Experience leading experienced scientists as well as having a record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a career track in a business environment.
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of relevant work in industry or academia.
Knowledge of problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis.
Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art.
Peer‑reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Legal Compliance Statements
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit ********************************************************* for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit ******************************************************** This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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$179k-309.4k yearly 1d ago
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Research Scientist - Diffusion Models
Kadence
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
Founding Research Scientist - Generative Video
📍 Seattle, WA (Onsite, 5 days/week) | 💼 Full-time
About the Founders
Founded by a collective of PhD researchers from leading global universities (Apple, Stanford & Oxford PhD Alumni) with backgrounds at top AI labs and major technology companies, combining deep theoretical insight with proven large-scale product execution.
About the Company
Our client is a stealth-mode AI startup creating breakthrough technology at the intersection of perception, learning, and expression. The team's mission is to build intelligent systems that can observe and interpret subtle human cues - visual, vocal, and behavioral - to enable natural, emotionally aware digital interaction.
They're developing foundational models that unify multiple input streams to make communication between humans and machines feel effortless and authentic.
Role Overview
This position is ideal for a scientist who thrives at the boundary of research and product impact. As the Founding Research Scientist for Generative Video, you'll lead experimentation on advanced video generation methods, designing architectures that model motion, timing, and realism at scale.
You'll have freedom to explore new diffusion-based approaches, define metrics for visual fidelity and consistency, and bring early-stage research into practical real-time applications.
Key Responsibilities
Design and implement generative video models that synthesize realistic movement, depth, and texture.
Develop scalable pipelines for dataset creation, model training, and system evaluation.
Explore diffusion, transformer, and temporal modeling techniques to enhance continuity and expression.
Partner with engineers and scientists across modalities (speech, text, vision) to integrate outputs into unified frameworks.
Evaluate model behavior, benchmark performance, and publish findings where appropriate.
Transition promising prototypes into production-ready, low-latency systems.
Required Background
PhD or comparable experience in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or Graphics.
Proven expertise in video or 3D generative modeling, preferably using diffusion or transformer architectures.
Strong applied experience with PyTorch, JAX, or similar toolkits.
Understanding of data curation, distributed training, and large-scale evaluation.
Publications, patents, or open-source contributions demonstrating research excellence.
Self-directed mindset with enthusiasm for rapid iteration and open-ended discovery.
What Makes This Unique
Early technical ownership in shaping the research roadmap of a deep-tech organization.
Opportunity to work on high-impact, unexplored problems in real-time generative media.
Close collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of machine learning, vision, and graphics experts.
Competitive compensation, strong equity participation, and top-tier backing from investors in applied AI.
About the Team The future of e-commerce customer service is intelligent, efficient, and AI-driven. Our team is dedicated to replacing traditional human-agent customer service with an advanced AI-powered conversational system that provides instant, intelligent, and seamless support for TikTok's global e-commerce platform. By leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and NLP, we are building an AI customer service system that can understand user queries, resolve disputes, guide transactions, and enhance the overall shopping experience without the need for human intervention.
Our cutting-edge AI is designed to handle complex customer interactions, including answering product inquiries, resolving order issues, processing refunds, and assisting sellers with operational tasks. Through LLM post-training, we ensure that our AI assistant is continuously learning and improving, providing more accurate, context-aware, and human-like interactions.
By joining us, you will be at the forefront of transforming customer service in e-commerce, helping build an AI system that understands, adapts, and provides intelligent solutions-all while reducing costs and improving efficiency for merchants and the platform.
What You Will Do
* Develop AI-Powered Customer Service Systems: Design and implement an AI-driven conversational customer service agent that can handle e-commerce inquiries, complaints, refunds, dispute resolutions, and logistical issues, replacing traditional human customer service agents.
* LLM Post-Training & Data-Efficient Learning: Apply state-of-the-art LLM post-training techniques, such as instruction tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and continual learning, to optimize AI customer service responses with minimal labeled data.
* Benchmark and training data construction: Identify challenging customer service interactions, such as policy clarifications, dispute handling, and multi-turn complaint resolution, and construct specialized datasets to enhance AI training.
* Develop Multilingual Customer Support: Build AI models capable of handling customer service interactions across multiple languages and cultural contexts, ensuring accurate translation and appropriate responses for a diverse global audience.
* Optimize Model Efficiency & Deployment: Work on model compression, quantization, and efficient inference techniques to ensure the AI customer service assistant can run at scale with low latency and high reliability.
Responsibilities
* Develop AI Customer Support Systems: Build and optimize AI-driven customer service models capable of handling high-volume, complex user inquiries while ensuring high response accuracy and reliability.
* Enhance LLM-Based Customer Interaction Models: Implement LLM post-training strategies to improve customer support interactions, reducing errors, hallucinations, and irrelevant responses.
* Create Automated Dispute Resolution & Policy-Adaptive AI: Develop intelligent models capable of handling disputes, verifying transaction details, and ensuring platform compliance in automated responses.
* Develop Multilingual Support & Translation Models: Enhance the platform's AI translation capabilities for real-time multilingual customer service interactions, ensuring smooth cross-language communication.
* Refine Response Evaluation Metrics: Define and implement quality evaluation metrics for AI-generated responses to track customer satisfaction and improve conversational AI quality through A/B testing and iterative optimization.
* Enable AI-Seller Collaboration: Build AI-powered seller assistance tools to help merchants quickly respond to customer inquiries, manage store operations, and resolve disputes efficiently.
* Optimize Large-Scale Model Deployment: Work on model compression, inference optimization, and edge AI deployment to ensure real-time, high-quality customer service experiences at scale.
Join us and be part of the next-generation AI customer service revolution-where AI replaces traditional human support, making e-commerce interactions smarter, faster, and more seamless for millions of users worldwide!Minimum Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
* 3+ working experience in one of the following fields: machine learning, NLP, and computer vision
* Experience with software development in at least one of the following programming languages: C++, Python, Go, Java
Preferred Qualifications
* LLM Development & Post-Training Expertise: Experience in fine-tuning, distillation, or reinforcement learning of large language models for conversational AI applications.
* Multilingual AI Development: Proficiency in multilingual NLP, machine translation, and cross-lingual dialogue modeling.
* E-commerce Business Acumen: Understanding of e-commerce policies, dispute resolution workflows, and merchant-buyer interactions to enhance AI service design.
* Advanced NLP & Deep Learning: Strong grasp of AI agents, retrieval augmented generation, mixture of experts, sparse attention, reinforcement learning, inference time scaling etc. for improving AI dialogue quality.
* Scalability & Efficiency: Experience in distributed model training, low-latency inference, and edge AI for large-scale customer service applications.
This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect sensitive data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening.
$111k-169k yearly est. 60d+ ago
Applied Scientist, AI Evaluation Platform
Apple Inc. 4.8
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other's ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It's the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you'll do more than join something - you'll add something.
Our team, part of Apple Services Engineering, is looking for an Applied Scientist to lead the design and continuous development of automated benchmarking methodologies for AI-powered code assistant tools. In this role, you will investigate how coding-focused LLM agents behave, create rigorous evaluation frameworks, and establish scientific standards for assessing their quality and reliability. This role is crafted to enable the development of scalable evaluation frameworks that ensure our engineers have the right tools to create products that surprise and delight our customers. The successful candidate will have a proactive approach with the ability to work independently and collaboratively on a wide range of projects. In this role, you will work alongside a small but impactful team, collaborating with ML and data scientists, software developers, project managers and other teams at Apple to understand requirements and translate them into scalable, reliable, and efficient evaluation frameworks.
Publications in ML evaluation or related fields. Experience with automated testing frameworks. Experience constructing human-in-the-loop or multi-turn evaluation setups. Prior work on agentic developer tools.
Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent research/work experience. Strong research background in empirical evaluation, experimental design, or benchmarking. Strong proficiency in Python. Intermediate proficiency in Swift. Deep familiarity with software engineering workflows and developer tools. Experience working with or evaluating AI/ML models, preferably LLMs or program synthesis systems. Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to write clear reports.
$115k-157k yearly est. 39d ago
AGI Model Architect / Research Scientist in AGI Model Architecture
Tencent 4.5
Senior principal scientist job in Bellevue, WA
We are committed to building the core architecture for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems that match or surpass human-level capabilities. As a key contributor to our core R&D team, you will help develop large-scale models with multimodal perception, autonomous learning, and reasoning abilities, driving their generalization to real-world applications. Our goal is to design a native multimodal system-capable of understanding and generating across vision, speech, and text-while interacting deeply with the environment to catalyze the transition from AGI to ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence).
Responsibilities:
Design unified large model architectures with integrated capabilities in multimodal perception, reasoning, memory, and generation (across vision/audio/text).
Build systems that support continual learning, hierarchical memory, autonomous exploration, and self-evolution.
Advance the development of agent-based systems with autonomous task planning, cross-modal interaction, tool usage, and self-improvement capabilities.
Contribute deeply to the design of core components such as general representation learning, synchronized audio-visual modeling, world models, and sparse modeling.
Key Research Areas:
Multimodal Unified Architecture: Native co-frequency modeling and cross-modal reasoning across vision, speech, and language.
Continual Learning & Memory Mechanisms: Architectures that separate long-term memory from the core model to enable memory recall and task transfer.
World Modeling & Causal Reasoning: Enabling models to predict environmental states, plan behaviors, and update cognitive structures dynamically.
Sparse & Modular Architectures: Scalable, efficient, and interpretable ultra-large sparse model design.
Self-Evolution & Active Data Generation: Mechanisms for self-growth through reinforcement learning, self-supervision, and environment interaction.
Cross-Modal Understanding & Generation: Strengthening joint generation and decision-making capabilities in real-world physical environments.
Intelligent Agent Capability Transfer: Systematic enhancement of task generalization and tool-composition skills.
Who We Look For
Requirements:
Expertise in Transformer-based architectures and their applications in language and multimodal domains.
Hands-on experience in building or optimizing billion-scale models; familiar with training paradigms such as SFT (Supervised Fine-tuning), RLHF (Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback), and self-supervised learning.
Preferred qualifications include deep understanding or practical experience in one or more of the following areas:
Multimodal models (e.g., vision-language models, audio-video models)
Reinforcement learning and autonomous agent systems
Complex reasoning and planning (e.g., search + LLMs, world modeling)
Sparse modeling and dynamic routing mechanisms
Strong engineering and system thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate cutting-edge research into production-level AGI model systems.
Publications in top-tier conferences/journals such as NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, etc., are highly desirable.
Location State(s)
US-Washington-BellevueThe expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $134,900.00 to $253,400.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Employees hired for this position may be eligible for a sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units, which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Subject to the terms and conditions of the plans in effect, hired applicants are also eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, and participation in the Company's 401(k) plan. The Employee is also eligible for up to 15 to 25 days of vacation per year (depending on the employee's tenure), up to 13 days of holidays throughout the calendar year, and up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year. Your benefits may be adjusted to reflect your location, employment status, duration of employment with the company, and position level. Benefits may also be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent
As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.
$134.9k-253.4k yearly Auto-Apply 60d+ ago
Senior Scientist - Agricultural Formulations
Tidal Vision
Senior principal scientist job in Bellingham, WA
JOB TITLE: SeniorScientist - Agricultural Formulations
REPORTS TO: Chief Scientific Officer
STATUS: Full time, Exempt
SALARY RANGE: $130,000-$160,000/year based on experience & qualifications
BENEFITS: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, optional FSA/HSA, 401k with 6% employer match, life and AD&D insurance, Employee Assistance Program, short & long term disability, tuition reimbursement, 21.67 days of paid time off + 10 holidays
About Tidal Vision:
We believe that sustainability should not require customers to compromise on price, convenience, or performance. Our mission is to create positive and systemic environmental impact by making our biopolymer solutions cost competitive, more convenient, and better performing than the synthetic chemicals we displace. We value innovation and take pride in challenging the status-quo; we choose to view obstacles as opportunities. We value new ideas and encourage the team to apply creativity and invent new solutions to meet challenging demands. We foster open, direct communication, and a collaborative working environment through our unique approach to work culture. We value our employees and demonstrate that through our compensation and benefits programs and opportunities for growth and development.
About Tidal Visions Unique Work Culture:
Tidal Vision strives to build and invest in the highest performing and most innovative team. We put our people and customers above process, avoid company-wide rules as much as possible, and have the courage to take unusual approaches to advance our mission. With this approach, we believe we can create a more flexible, fun, stimulating, creative, collaborative, and innovative organization.
Our commitment to developing, practicing and promoting direct and open communication, responsibility and freedom, and leading with and seeking context is a responsibility for every role at Tidal Vision.
JOB SUMMARY:
The SeniorScientist will play a critical role in advancing Tidal Grow AgriScience`s Research & Development pipeline. This position requires deep expertise in agricultural sciences, product development, and technology scale-up, as well as the leadership skills to guide teams and collaborate across functions. The SeniorScientist will lead product concept initiation, improvement of existing products, research trial design and execution, and product life cycle assessments. This role blends scientific rigor with commercial awareness, translating cutting-edge research into practical, sustainable solutions that strengthen both grower outcomes and company growth.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
Lead innovation and product concept development, including improvements to existing product lines.
Drive technology development, scale-up and translation from laboratory research to commercial application.
Provide scientific and strategic recommendations to leadership, management, and stakeholders.
Design, manage, and analyze field and greenhouse trials, delivering data-driven insights.
Mentor and lead cross-functional R&D teams.
Conduct product life cycle assessments from discovery through commercialization.
Collaborate with regulatory, product development, and business teams to align science with market and customer needs.
Apply computational R&D and advanced statistical analysis to optimize performance.
Prepare and submit research proposals; represent Tidal Grow AgriScience with partners, institutions, and industry stakeholders.
Utilizing your experience, you will provide input to the PD and CAS Teams regarding customer needs and ensure product and offer innovation matches the strategy for each account.
Generally representing the mission, vision, and values of Tidal Grow AgriScience with customers and other stakeholders.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Masters degree or Ph.D. in Agricultural Science, Plant Science, Chemistry, Chemical Sciences, or a related field.
Over 10 years of proven R&D experience in agriculture, fertilizers, pesticides, or related industries, with expertise in product development, technology scale-up, and computational R&D.
Hands-on experience working with biopolymers, particularly chitosan, in developing agricultural inputs, coatings, and controlled-release formulations.
Strong knowledge of ag industry products, applications, and regulations.
Demonstrated leadership ability, with experience inspiring, mentoring, and motivating teams.
Excellent communication, proposal writing, and relationship management skills.
Proven track record of delivering scientific and commercial outcomes.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Deep understanding of crop production, regenerative practices, sustainability, and market trends.
Strategic thinker with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
Negotiation skills.
Ability to work independently and prioritize effectively in a dynamic environment.
Licensing & Special Requirements
Incumbent is subject to a criminal background check.
WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Position is based on-site in Bellingham, WA. Some travel may be required for research trials, conferences, or partner engagement. The employee is frequently required to stand, talk, hear, smell, visually inspect materials, walk, etc., and sometimes needs to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds while working around crop protection products. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
Tidal Vision provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibility, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned including work in other functional areas to cover absences or relief, to equalize peak work periods, or otherwise to balance the workload. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.
$130k-160k yearly 14d ago
Applied Scientist, Prime Video
Prime Video
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports - including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.
Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.
As a Prime Video technologist, you'll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You'll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You'll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.
We'll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!
Key job responsibilities
As Applied Scientist at Prime Video, you will have end-to-end ownership of the product, related research and experimentation, applying advanced machine learning techniques in computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), multimedia understanding and so on. You'll work on diverse projects that enhance Prime Video's recommendation systems, image/video understanding, and content personalization, driving impactful innovations for our global audience. Other responsibilities include:
• Lead cutting-edge research in computer vision and natural language processing, applying it to video-centric media challenges.
• Develop scalable machine learning models to enhance media asset generation, content discovery, and personalization.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to integrate your models into production systems at scale, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Actively participate in publishing your research in leading conferences and journals.
• You will shape the research strategy, create forward-looking roadmaps, and effectively communicate progress and insights to senior leadership
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI and machine learning to drive future research initiatives.
About the team
At Prime Video, we strive to deliver the best-in-class entertainment experiences across devices for millions of customers. Whether it's developing new personalization algorithms, improving video content discovery, or building robust media processing systems, our scientists and engineers tackle real-world challenges daily. You'll be part of a fast-paced environment where experimentation, risk-taking, and innovation are encouraged.
- Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse
- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit ********************************************************* for more information. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit ******************************************************** This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
$129.4k-212.8k yearly 60d+ ago
Applied Scientist
Grid 3.3
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
Job DescriptionAbout us Today's financial system is built to favor those with money. Grid's mission is to level that playing field by building financial products that help users better manage their financial future. The Grid app lets users access cash, build credit, spend money, optimize their taxes, and lots, lots more.
Grid is a fast-growing team that's deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of millions. We're solving huge problems and believe that every team member has a big role to play. Come join our growing team in our brand new Seattle office!
The role We're adding an Applied Scientist to our team to help us build and scale our core product lines. You'll work closely with product, engineering and business leaders to make a difference with data. With access to multiple robust datasets and clear research objectives, you'll have a significant impact on Grid's progress as a business-as well as our users' happiness and success.
Projects will include fraud detection, prevention and mitigation in novel arenas, such as risk underwriting for various lending/advance programs; predictive analytics to drive our payout and repayments systems; and more. The team We're focused on serving our users and building a robust product and business above all else. To this end, Grid's team members experience high levels autonomy and ownership, and as a company we value curiosity, learning and growth.
As an Applied Scientist, you'll have an opportunity not only to identify key leverage points for our data products, but also to set the standard for Grid's statistical inference and machine learning practice.
The tech stack Our backend tech stack is based on Python, GCP, Go, protobufs, BigQuery and MySQL. We have built our platform from the ground up to optimize for clean data sources, and we have made numerous investments into data warehousing, streaming analytics infrastructure and offline data cleanliness. As a result, we think Grid is positioned for efficient and powerful applied science.What you'll do
Research & Analysis: Perform data research and analysis using Grid's proprietary dataset as well as other relevant sources
Model Development: Develop and validate models that enable strategically relevant business objectives, such as enabling growth, mitigating fraud, controlling risk, etc.
Deployment & Iteration: Iterate on new and existing models based on feedback from team and real-world performance
Productionization: Collaborate with data engineers, product managers to help translate your work into production-grade, high scaled data products
Present Findings: Present your findings and communicate with members of the team with varying levels of technical depth
Foster DS @ Grid: Help build out our Applied Science and Machine Learning as a team and practice at Grid
What we're looking for:
Applied Science Expertise: Proven experience in Machine Learning and/or Applied Science, including a strong background in statistical inference, machine learning. This is a requirement, a bachelors or master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science with a focus on machine learning is required. We are currently not accepting applicants with bachelor or master's degrees in Business Analytics, Information Systems, or Data Science.
Deep Expertise in Applied Science & Machine Learning: Proven experience in applied machine learning, including a deep understanding of statistical inference and predictive modeling. Demonstrated practical experience with deep learning techniques, particularly transformer-based models.
Research to Implementation Proficiency: A strong track record of reading, understanding, and implementing research papers in machine learning or related fields.
Robust Technical Skills: Hands-on experience with Python (with libraries like PyTorch/TensorFlow) and SQL is essential.
Autonomy and Initiative: Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, showcasing a proactive approach to identifying key leverage points for data products.
Curiosity and Optimism: People who are constantly asking why the world around them works the way it does, and who have the will to change it.
Technical Skills: Proficiency in the modern machine learning techniques, such as Model Evaluation and Validation, Deep Learning and Time Series Analysis, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, Tree based Models (i.e., Random Forest).
Self Starter: Confidence to prioritize work and delivery demonstrable results on a tight cadence.
Domain Knowledge: Demonstrated experience or understanding of the financial industry, especially in the context of building and scaling FinTech products.
BenefitsMedicalDentalVision 401K Life Insurance
Salary Range$120,000 - $200,000 per year
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
$120k-200k yearly 6d ago
2026 University Graduate - Research Scientist/Engineer
Adobe 4.8
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
Our Company Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands-everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We're on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!
Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe's all about. We give everyone-from emerging artists to global brands- everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences. We're passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
Our goal is to recruit top talent and is dedicated to promoting outstanding employee experiences where all individuals are valued and offered equitable opportunities. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours.
The Opportunity
Adobe is looking for a Applied Research Scientist who will apply AI and applied research techniques to big-data problems to help Adobe better understand, lead and optimize the experience of its customers. Partnering with the business units, the candidate will be building various products that address challenging business problems through our customers' full lifecycle, from customer analytics to marketing media optimization.
By using statistical and econometric methods, predictive models, experimental design methods, and optimization techniques, the candidate will be working on the research and development of exciting projects like attribution, media mix modeling, budget optimization, personalization, causal analysis, time series analysis.
Ideal candidates will have a strong academic background as well as technical skills including applied statistics, machine learning, data mining, and software development. Familiarity with working with large-scale datasets and big data techniques would be a plus.
What You'll Do
Develop predictive models on large-scale datasets to address various business problems with advanced statistical modeling, machine learning, and analytics techniques.
Develop and implement scalable and efficient modeling algorithms that can work with large-scale data in production systems
Collaborate with product management and engineering groups to develop new products and features.
What You Need to Succeed
PhD or MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math, Operations Research, Econometrics or equivalent experience required graduating between December 2025 - June 2026
0-2+ years of experience in specific skill/field(s)
Deep understanding of statistical modeling, machine learning, deep learning, or data mining concepts, and a track record of solving problems with these methods.
Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java and C
Familiar with one or more machine learning or statistical modeling tools such as R, Matlab and scikit learn
Knowledge and experience of working with relational databases and SQL
Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving ability.
Excellent communication, relationship skills and a strong team player.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $120,700 -- $238,600 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.In Washington, the pay range for this position is $146,300 - $211,850
At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans. Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).
In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
State-Specific Notices:
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$146.3k-211.9k yearly Auto-Apply 12d ago
Research Scientist
Open Door 4.5
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced Staff / Senior Staff Research Scientist to push the boundaries of applied machine learning and AI at Opendoor. While this role will have a significant impact on our valuation systems - ensuring we provide the most accurate and transparent pricing possible - the scope goes well beyond pricing. You'll work across a range of challenging ML problems, from multi-modal modeling to operational optimization, helping us rethink how we use structured and unstructured data to make better decisions for our customers.
What You'll Need
Strong software engineering and coding skills in Python, with experience contributing to production codebases
9+ years of experience developing and deploying ML models end-to-end - from research and prototyping to implementation in production systems
Hands-on experience with deep learning architectures, including ConvNets, Transformers, or similar
Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related quantitative field
Solid foundation in statistics and experimental design
Strong communication and collaboration skills - you're comfortable working with cross-functional stakeholders and can communicate technical ideas clearly
Nice to Have
Familiarity with Pyspark and distributed data processing
Background in search, recommendation systems, or personalization
Experience working with large language models (LLMs) or vision-language models (VLMs)
A genuine interest in real estate - no prior experience required, but you'll engage deeply with housing data
What You'll Do
Design and deploy architectural improvements to our deep neural network (DNN)-based home valuation models
Build interpretable ML models that can help us explain pricing decisions to customers
Incorporate unstructured data - like images, videos, or text - into our forecasting and valuation pipelines using cutting-edge AI models (LLMs, VLMs, etc.)
Collaborate with Engineering and Ops to enhance our human-in-the-loop pricing systems
Improve the feature engineering and model training pipelines that power our production systems
Rethink our risk and optimization models using real-world data and domain insight
We're a small, nimble team - there's ample opportunity to work across the entire research and modeling stack.
Compensation
The base pay range for this position is $238,400 - $327,800 annually, plus RSUs and bonuses. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on your qualifications, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer a comprehensive package of benefits including unlimited PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
At Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We've built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we're just getting started.
$70k-115k yearly est. Auto-Apply 12d ago
Applied Scientist II - Moloco Ads
Moloco 3.8
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
Moloco builds some of the most powerful AI advertising solutions in the world. Our name-short for "machine learning company"-reflects our core mission: democratizing access to the advanced AI that has historically been reserved for tech giants. Led by machine learning pioneers who built some of the most successful ad systems at Google, including YouTube's monetization engine and key search advertising technologies, we're transforming how businesses grow and compete in the digital economy.
Built with AI from day one, Moloco's planet-scale machine learning platform powers a suite of solutions for advertising growth and monetization. Moloco Ads is an AI-powered platform that delivers real business outcomes for mobile app marketers through performance-based user acquisition. Moloco Commerce Media and Streaming Monetization solutions enable retailers, marketplaces, and streaming platforms to build revenue-generating ad businesses that balance user experience and advertiser performance.
Moloco is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Tokyo, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, and Berlin.
Moloco is a truly rewarding place to work and in an exciting period of growth, which you could be a part of. Join us today and apply now!
About the Role
The impact you'll be contributing to Moloco:
The Research Science (RS) team focuses on the operation and optimization of our software systems working closely with infrastructure engineering teams, machine learning teams and data science teams. As an Applied Scientist, you will participate as an individual contributor on research projects alongside other research scientists within the context of a group of cross functional collaborators working in complex multi-causal environments to identify inefficiencies, analyze potential options, and propose solutions. Your work will contribute to driving performance improvements and cost reductions, debugging and investigating production issues, and stabilizing our core system as you develop a deep end-to-end understanding of the system.
Here's what you'll be working on:
Work with other applied scientists on projects to evaluate the health of both internal and external components to make sure the Moloco system is running safely and efficiently.
Learn from your senior peers how to identify new areas to improve our infrastructure and machine learning components by understanding internal system changes, external changes, and data changes, and identify and suggest interesting/useful next steps for your projects.
Complete task as part of larger projects to complete deep unbiased analyses.
Implement, and evaluate new algorithms and features in collaboration with senior Applied Scientists, Software Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers.
Basic Qualifications:
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field, or industry experience in optimization of market prices or ML systems
At least 4 years of engineering or applied science experience
Proficient verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to contribute to the creation of presentations and reports
Quick understanding of new information and the demonstrated ability to learn new technical skills across engineering, machine learning, and data science
Track record of building positive relationships with collaborators and stakeholders and working effectively with cross-functional partners in a global company
Our Compensation And Benefits (for United States Residents Only)
In accordance with various state laws, the range provided is a reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. We also offer a competitive benefits package.
Base Pay Range:$140,400-$180,400 USD
Moloco Thrive: Benefits and Well-Being:
We take care of you and create the conditions for you to do the best work of your career. We offer innovative benefits that empower our employees to take care of themselves and their families so they can do the best work of their lives.
Moloco Values:
Lead with Humility: Everyone's voice is respected, valued, and heard. With humility, we become more open and accessible to each other. We win, lose, and learn together. Accountability and feedback are essential to our success.
Uncapped Growth Mindset: We see all situations as opportunities to learn, grow, and improve as individuals and as an organization. We seek diverse perspectives, encourage curiosity, and promote experimentation to push the boundaries of what's possible.
Create Real Value: We pursue the most impactful opportunities with rigor and integrity. We take intelligent risks and make disciplined trade-offs to maintain deep focus. We help our customers win by delivering durable value.
Go Further Together: We're one team working towards one mission and vision. We collaborate proactively and inclusively, involving the right people at the right time and in the right way. We strive to create a more equitable workplace. We won't let each other fail.
Additional Resources:
Moloco Company Blog
Moloco Leadership
Moloco Newsroom
Equal Opportunity:
Creating a diverse workforce and a culture of inclusion and belonging is core to our existence. To reach our goals, diversity of talent and thought is a critical component of how we operate as an organization. Our workforce is our superpower, and we know that fostering a culture of inclusion, authenticity, and belonging gives us the greatest opportunity to achieve our vision to become the scaling engine for the Internet economy.
Moloco is an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex and gender, gender expression and identity, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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$140.4k-180.4k yearly Auto-Apply 15d ago
Scientist, Discovery
Umoja Biopharma
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
Umoja Biopharma is a game-changing biotech start-up with locations in Seattle, WA and Louisville, CO, focused on transforming the treatment of cancer with a novel integrated immunotherapy platform. Our vision is to develop off-the-shelf therapies capable of treating any tumor, any time. We are a diverse and growing team working in brand-new facilities in downtown Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Colorado, and we are looking for innovative thinkers who are excited by groundbreaking science and technology, and passionate about squaring up to the challenges inherent to cutting edge drug development. We are committed to the principles of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and strongly invite applications from enthusiastic individuals who share our commitment and help position Umoja as a leader in this front.
We at Umoja believe in the importance of stories; we are looking for great people to join our team to help us create more stories for ourselves, for you, and most importantly for patients and their families.
Umoja Biopharma - Your Body. Your Hope. Your Cure.
POSITION SUMMARY
Umoja is seeking a Scientist to join the Discovery Research team. This position will provide scientific technical leadership in delivering both routine IND-enabling studies, and studies exploring novel CAR T product concepts. This position entails initiating, designing, executing, analyzing, and communicating medium-sized projects consisting of several related experiments. A successful candidate will have experience with in vitro CAR-T assays (e.g. cell growth, cytokine production, cytotoxicity, and phenotypic analysis), and high-throughput screening methods that leverage genome editing (e.g. CRISPR).
This is a fully onsite role based out of our Seattle, WA location.
CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Specific responsibilities include:
Lead by demonstrating high standards for experiment design, execution, documentation, analysis, and communication.
Solve moderately complex technical problems pertaining to product, experiment, and assay design.
Perform experimental design, execution, data analysis, and reporting of results for IND-enabling studies.
Design and implement novel screening campaigns to explore new product functionalities.
Execute routine CAR T cell functional assays and assay development (MSD, flow cytometry, Incucyte ) as needed by the department.
Author reports with clear and concise figures and messaging.
Audit Benchling entries and perform data verification.
Collaborate closely with adjacent departments.
Proactively communicate activities, issues, and ideas to the team and serve as a subject matter expert on program teams as needed.
Identify opportunities for product and assay improvements.
Maintain familiarity with current scientific literature, maintain and update knowledge of CAR T biology, vector biology, and immunology.
The successful candidate will have:
PhD/MS/BS in Biological Science, Immunology or related discipline with at least 0+/8+/10+ years of relevant work experience respectively
Expertise with platforms used for T cell analysis including the MSD, Incucyte, dPCR, and Attune/Aurora (or other flow cytometers).
Experience with high-throughput screening methodologies.
Extensive experience with experimental design, planning, execution, and basic data analysis
Strong team communication and collaboration skills, along with self-motivation to contribute to the development of novel cancer immunotherapies
Ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced, cross-functional and dynamic environment
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong analytical capability
Excels as both a team member and individual contributor
Strong communication and organizational skills
Experience with data analysis with JMP, R, and/or python
Experience with INTEGRA pipetting equipment
Experience working with electronic lab notebooks
Experience with regulatory filings
Physical Requirements:
100% compliance with personal protective equipment (PPE) requirements in biological laboratory environments for wet lab work, including gloves, protective clothing, and eye safety glasses.
Perform physical tasks required for the role, including standing, walking, bending, kneeling, sitting, working your hands in a biosafety cabinet, and occasionally moving materials up to 50 pounds.
Project-oriented work in this role will require regular on-site presence (5 days/week) to complete essential job-related functions.
Salary Range: $123,250 - $152,250
Benefits Offerings
Umoja Biopharma offers its employees competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans. Additionally, we offer Umojians access to a 401k plan through Fidelity, with a 100% match up to their first 4% deferral. Umoja also provides a generous Paid Time Off policy, employee commuter benefits, and cell phone stipend. For a full breakdown of our benefits offerings, please see the Benefits section of our website.
$123.3k-152.3k yearly Auto-Apply 55d ago
Modern AI Scientist
Solventum
Senior principal scientist job in Washington
Thank you for your interest in joining Solventum. Solventum is a new healthcare company with a long legacy of solving big challenges that improve lives and help healthcare professionals perform at their best. At Solventum, people are at the heart of every innovation we pursue. Guided by empathy, insight, and clinical intelligence, we collaborate with the best minds in healthcare to address our customers' toughest challenges. While we continue updating the Solventum Careers Page and applicant materials, some documents may still reflect legacy branding. Please note that all listed roles are Solventum positions, and our Privacy Policy: *************************************************************************************** applies to any personal information you submit. As it was with 3M, at Solventum all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Job Description:
AI Scientist - Modern AI Applications
3M Health Care is now Solventum
At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers' toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.
We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.
The Impact You'll Make in this Role
As a Principal AI Scientist with deep expertise in Agentic AI, Generative AI, and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), you will lead high-impact technical innovation in HIS applications. In this role, you will be a hands-on research and development leader - driving technical breakthroughs, designing novel AI architectures, and directly influencing the integration of advanced AI into mission-critical healthcare products. You will collaborate closely with other scientists, engineers, and domain experts to create solutions that are explainable, reliable, and transformative for healthcare operations.
Key Responsibilities
Research & Innovation
Design, prototype, and evaluate novel AI models for autonomous, agent-based systems in healthcare workflows.
Advance state-of-the-art NLU for clinical, operational, and administrative healthcare text.
Explore and implement new capabilities in reasoning, decision-making, and multi-modal understanding.
Healthcare-Focused AI Development
Adapt and fine-tune large language models to handle healthcare-specific language, regulatory requirements, and ethical considerations.
Create AI pipelines that can process structured and unstructured healthcare data (FHIR, HL7, clinical notes, claims data).
Contribute to domain-specific model architectures that improve clinical decision-making, revenue cycle management, and patient engagement.
Technical Leadership
Serve as the primary technical authority on Agentic and Generative AI within project teams.
Mentor junior AI scientists and engineers through code reviews, research guidance, and technical workshops.
Drive internal knowledge-sharing on emerging AI trends, frameworks, and best practices.
Operational & Compliance Excellence
Implement rigorous model evaluation frameworks for accuracy, robustness, and fairness.
Ensure compliance with healthcare privacy and data security regulations (HIPAA, HITRUST).
Partner with engineering to move research prototypes into production environments.
Required Qualifications
Master's in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field AND 5+ years of experience in AI/ML, with a strong portfolio of deployed models.
Or
PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field AND 3+ years of experience in AI/ML, with a strong portfolio of deployed models.
Experience in Python, R, and modern ML libraries.
Experience with GenAI, LLMs, and transformer architectures.
Experience with AI development tools and frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, RAG systems).
Preferred Skills
Multi-modal AI research experience (text, image, structured data).
Knowledge graph integration and symbolic reasoning expertise.
Proven ability to take AI research from concept to production.
Hands-on experience with autonomous AI agents and reasoning systems.
Strong track record applying AI to healthcare or life sciences use cases.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS) and MLOps practices.
Work location:
US Remote
Travel: May include up to 10% domestic
Relocation Assistance: Is not authorized
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).
Supporting Your Well-being
Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life - both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, Solventum regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.
Onboarding Requirement: To improve the onboarding experience, you will have an opportunity to meet with your manager and other new employees as part of the Solventum new employee orientation. As a result, new employees hired for this position will be required to travel to a designated company location for on-site onboarding during their initial days of employment. Travel arrangements and related expenses will be coordinated and paid for by the company in accordance with its travel policy. Applies to new hires with a start date of October 1st 2025 or later.Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.
Solventum is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and professionalism in our recruitment process. Applicants must remain alert to fraudulent job postings and recruitment schemes that falsely claim to represent Solventum and seek to exploit job seekers.
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Please note, Solventum does not expect candidates in this position to perform work in the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County.Solventum is an equal opportunity employer. Solventum will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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$69k-109k yearly est. Auto-Apply 56d ago
Sensory Scientist
Talking Rain 4.1
Senior principal scientist job in Washington
WHO WE ARE
We're Talking Rain Beverage Company, we create better-for-you beverages featuring great flavors and colors from natural sources. We live life in full flavor and believe the world should too. We create connections with every sip of our iconic Sparkling Ice, Sparkling Ice Caffeine, Sparkling Ice Energy, Popwell and MIXT.
When it comes to success, we know we're only as strong as our team. That's why we're an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and practice inclusivity, hiring great people who enhance our company.
Our Rain Makers are our most important asset. That's why we invest in them with benefits and development opportunities that reflect just how much we value them.
Our Research & Development team is proud of where we've been, but more interested in where we're going. This team drives creativity, growing our portfolio of products. Here, you will apply your sensory expertise to lead consumer sensory testing, guide product development, and translate insights into opportunities for exceptional product experiences.
Reports to: Manager, Research & Development
Direct Reports: N/A
Location: Onsite at our Preston, WA office 5 days a week
*While we strive to offer flexibility, this role also requires it. There may be times when you're expected to come onsite outside your typical in-office days to support special projects, team events, or other business needs.
Annual Bonus Potential: 7% - Eligibility is based on the company hitting annual financial targets.
Base Salary: $70,000 - $95,000 (depending on experience)
Note: New hires typically receive between minimum and midpoint, however, we may go slightly higher based on experience, internal equity and market.
Design, execute, and analyze all internal and external sensory tests to support product development. Independently create standardized reports, develop clear written recommendations, presentations, graphs, and visualizations to communicate insights to guide cross-functional decision-making.
Establish, train, and maintain internal sensory panels, ensuring consistency, reliability, and alignment with testing objectives. Deliver training to internal and external teams as needed.
Demonstrate strong initiative and prioritization skills, with effective time management, organization, and problem-solving abilities.
Maintain an organized internal sensory lab, supporting daily operations, efficiency, and ensuring compliance with food safety and quality standards.
Establish cross-functional partnerships to define sensory program objectives, align on deliverables, and support product development goals.
Manage relationships with external partners and consultants to support sensory goals.
Lead the assessment and implementation of new sensory research methods to enhance capabilities, drive efficiency, and improve business performance. Help identify and screen emerging technologies that enable improved sensory experiences and support innovation.
Ensure food safety, quality, and SQF practices are always followed, notifying immediate manager of any food safety and/or quality issues.
Complete other responsibilities as assigned.
We create connections with every sip. And we've found a lot of value in in-person connections! As a young, fast-growing company, we're still creating and refining the systems that will fuel our future growth.
Onsite presence is beyond collaboration, and here is why onsite presence matters:
Supports ad hoc and rapid-turn testing - Being onsite allows flexibility to conduct unplanned tests and provide real-time sensory input as new formulations or adjustments arise.
Enables immediate cross-functional collaboration - Proximity to R&D, QA, and Operations teams allows for quick alignment and faster iteration on product improvements.
Drives innovation through real-time observation - Hands-on evaluation and face-to-face collaboration spark new insights and more agile decision-making during development.
WHAT YOU BRING
Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Sensory Science, or related field required; Master's degree preferred. Equivalent experience considered.
4+ years of food sensory experience, including applied statistics and testing methodologies.
2+ years in product development preferred, ideally in the beverage industry.
Strong organizational, communication and problem-solving skills.
Working knowledge of food science principles, sensory methodologies, food manufacturing
Ability to work independently, collaborate with stakeholders, manage multiple priorities, and build cross-functional relationships.
Please note, this role is safety sensitive. This means that as part of your core responsibilities you will be regularly responsible for your own safety and/or the safety of others (e.g., driving on behalf of the company, working in a warehouse/plant environment).
Rain Makers are people who are accountable, curious, and inclusive.
We hold ourselves
accountable
and recognize room for growth while openly accepting feedback. We embrace change to deliver progressive results.
Rain Makers don't wait for answers - we go find them.
Curiosity
is part of what makes us so successful. Sometimes we push back, productively challenging the status quo.
We promote
inclusivity
. Valuing communication and respect, ensuring everyone has a seat at the table. We are an approachable bunch, building and fostering relationships with people of all backgrounds.
WHAT WE OFFER
Nothing makes a great job even better than throwing in a few perks, and we want to equip our Rain Makers with everything they need to maintain their health and well-being. That means things like...
Three Weeks of Vacation. And that's just to start! Spend some time with us, and you'll accrue an additional week every few years, depending on your exempt status!
FMLA qualifying Rain Makers receive six weeks of paid parental leave. Parents get to spend time at home bonding with their new addition (whether it arrives by birth, fostering, or adoption). For birth mothers, additional time is provided for medical leave. Depending on the state in which you reside, additional time may also be available for parents who do not require medical leave.
Flexibility Stipend. For eligible Rain Makers, spend this extra monthly stipend as you wish, but know it's intended to contribute to things like your phone, internet or other business uses while working remotely or needs outside of normal working hours.
Relocation: Relocation Available (when available)
Onsite and Hybrid Employees: Get paid to carpool! Drive to work with another Rain Maker every week at least 2X a week and receive $0.25 per mile.
401k with Immediate Vesting. With matched contributions and investment customization, we'll help build a plan to reach your goals.
Fitness Reimbursements. We're all about going the extra mile, so we provide reimbursements for community events and competitions like fun runs, triathlons, and cycling tours.
Employees may also enjoy access to our on-site gym in Preston complete with a personal trainer 2 days per week.
Medical/Dental/Vision. Not only do we offer it, but our plans are excellent and flexible to your needs. And one is even free for our Rain Makers!
Vehicle Program -
Field Sales Specialist - Mileage is reimbursed at the IRS rate
Field Sales Managers and Market Managers - Company car or vehicle stipend included!
Regional Sales Managers and Sales Directors - We use the leader in vehicle reimbursement solutions, Motus. This program provides a monthly fixed and variable rate that adheres to IRS guidelines for the business use of personal vehicles.
Please note, eligibility for our full benefits package is based on an average of 30+ hours per week in regular (not temporary) positions.
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$70k-95k yearly Auto-Apply 60d+ ago
Wetland Scientist
Pace Engineers, Inc. 3.7
Senior principal scientist job in Kirkland, WA
Ecologist / Wetland Scientist Full-time exempt Professional Kirkland, Kirkland, WA, US Salary Range: $95,000 To $135,000 (USD) Annually PACE Engineers is a Pacific Northwest engineering firm providing civil and structural engineering, planning, surveying, and construction management services from offices in Washington and Oregon. With 135 employee-owners, we are recognized for our expertise, passion, and commitment to clients and communities. Collaboration is central to our culture, enabling us to leverage the creativity and dedication of our teams across all locations, while maintaining a people-first approach that makes PACE both a strong partner and a vibrant community.
We are currently seeking an Ecologist/Wetland Scientist for our growing Environmental team.
This role is results-driven and aligned with the organization's strategic goals, requiring initiative, a competitive mindset, and the ability to stay focused during change. It demands quick decision-making, innovation, and a strong sense of urgency. The ideal candidate is confident, self-assured, and capable of inspiring others while maintaining a firm, goal-oriented leadership style. Excellent communication, adaptability, and delegation skills are essential, as is the ability to learn quickly and manage multiple priorities. Ultimately, success in this position is measured by achieving fast, high-quality results through motivation and accountability, rather than rigid adherence to process.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
* Lead and oversee critical area and wetland delineations in accordance with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) guidelines and regional supplements.
* Manage all phases of environmental projects including proposal development, budgeting, fieldwork, regulatory coordination, reporting, and client communication.
* Prepare and review high-quality technical documents such as wetland delineation reports, critical area reports, jurisdictional determinations, mitigation plans, HPA, and Section 404/401 permit applications.
* Serve as a primary liaison with federal, state, and local agencies on environmental permitting and compliance matters.
* Guide the development and implementation of wetland restoration, mitigation, and monitoring plans.
* Supervise, mentor, and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level staff.
* Utilize GIS and data management tools to support project planning and analysis.
* Ensure all project work meets regulatory requirements, internal standards, and client expectations.
* Stay current on evolving environmental regulations, guidance, and best practices.
QUALIFICATIONS:
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Environmental Science, Ecology, Biology, Natural Resources, or a related field.
* Minimum of 7-10 years of professional experience in wetland science, environmental consulting, or natural resource management.
* In-depth knowledge of federal and state wetland regulations, including Clean Water Act Section 404/401 permitting.
* Demonstrated experience managing complex environmental projects and multidisciplinary teams.
* Proficiency in conducting wetland delineations, functional assessments, and habitat evaluations.
* Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills; ability to present complex concepts clearly to clients and regulators.
* Experience completing complex mitigation and bank-use plans.
* Proficient in GIS mapping, GPS field tools, and environmental data analysis.
* Valid driver's license and willingness to travel for fieldwork and client meetings.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
* Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS) certification or eligibility.
* Experience in client development, proposal writing, and strategic project planning.
* Familiarity with NEPA, ESA, and other environmental compliance frameworks.
* Expertise in wetland mitigation banking, ecosystem restoration, or long-term monitoring programs.
* Experience in regulatory negotiation and agency coordination.
* Regional Experience
BENEFITS SNAPSHOT
* Hybrid work model & flexible scheduling
* 401(k) & ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)
* Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA
* Paid time off, holidays, and wellness programs
* Short & long-term disability, life, and AD&D insurance
* Culture that supports belonging, equity, and inclusion
PACE is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity in the workplace. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply.
$95k-135k yearly 60d+ ago
Research Scientist/Engineer 4 (Temporary)
University of Washington 4.4
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine is the third largest clinical department within the School of Medicine with 330 full-time faculty members, 460 courtesy faculty members, and over 350 staff. Department faculty provide clinical services in 5 hospitals, 14 primary care locations, and several outpatient sites in addition to telepsychiatry consultations to more than 150 clinics in Washington and beyond. As the only academic psychiatry department serving the five state WWAMI region (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho), the Department's highly competitive residency training program is largely responsible for developing the mental health workforce in the Pacific Northwest. The Department's robust research portfolio totals $67 million in grants and contracts per year for projects ranging from clinical neurosciences to treatment development to health policy and population health. The Department is recognized as an international leader in developing, testing, and implementing Collaborative Care, an integrated care model increasingly seen as a solution for population-based mental health care. Other areas of excellence include Addictions, Autism, High Risk Youth, Neurosciences, and Trauma, and the Department is developing innovative new programs in Technology and Mental Health, Global Mental Health, Maternal and Child Mental Health, and Targeted Intervention Development. Psychiatry is the third largest department in the School of Medicine and the largest non-divisioned department. The overall annual operations funding from all sources is over $130 million.
The Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences within the UW School of Medicine currently has an outstanding opportunity for a Full-time, Temporary Research Scientist/Engineer 4.
Seven Directions at the University of Washington is the first national public health institute in the United States to focus solely on improving Indigenous health and wellness. We are committed to cultivating and sharing knowledge, connecting communities and resources, and working to achieve shared goals for future generations. Seven Directions partners to support tribal communities to increase the capacity of tribal health systems designed to prevent and respond to the opioid overdose epidemic and address other health disparities, as well as conducting community-driven and community-designed health research. Our work includes culturally tailored technical assistance, community-engaged culture-centered research, evaluation, training, Indigenizing and decolonizing research, Indigenous data sovereignty, policy translation, convenings, and dissemination strategies. These services aim to improve Indigenous-serving organizations' and systems' data collection and epidemiologic surveillance capacity; increase implementation of evidence-based prevention strategies grounded in values respecting tribal sovereignty and cultural traditions; showcase models of tribal promising practices; and utilize Indigenous evaluation approaches.
This position (Pro Staff Temp Position (E S)) is in the field of public health research. The position will focus on better understanding and improving Indigenous public health and prevention in the areas of opioid overdose, substance use, and mental health using epidemiological and social science frameworks. The Research Scientist (RS) is a key member of the Seven Directions team, works alongside senior team members and guides junior team members in implementing a variety of research, evaluation and training activities, including contributing to project design, grant writing, implementation and management of multiple research projects, IRB submission and modification, data analysis, manuscript development and dissemination. The RS will lead and provide collaborative support in deliverables related to opioid overdose prevention, Indigenous evaluation and broad capacity building and system strengthening in partnership with Indigenous communities. The RS will be focused on developing a plan for updating Indigenous evaluation training materials, draft a scope of Indigenous evaluation training materials including peer reviewed literature sources and community data and research, interfacing with CDC partners and executing Indigenous evaluation training. The ideal candidate will bring doctoral level experience working in research, evaluation or training with AI/AN communities as well as an understanding of and humility toward AI/AN historical, contemporary, and cultural contexts.
Responsibilities
Research study design, grant preparation, data analysis and scientific writing/publication (40%)
* The RS will work with Seven Directions team to plan and design opioid, substance use, mental health, or other Indigenous culture-centered research or technical assistance projects related to Indigenous evaluation, Indigenous health and wellbeing and more.
* They will take a significant part in project design and operations, including designing project phases; conducting scientific and grey literature reviews, environmental scans; developing interview scripts, project protocols, quantitative surveys; writing grey and scientific manuscripts.
* In collaboration with other team members. they will analyze data, formulate conclusions, and present research results in publishable formats, including written documents, presentations, or online modules.
* They will work with PIs and faculty to identify external federal, state, local and private grant opportunities.
Research and Project Management (30%)
* Lead and assist with project management activities, including developing and monitoring project timelines, ensuring work is successfully executed and completed within time frames to meet research objectives and communicate with diverse academic, practice and community partners.
* Develop research operations protocols and train staff in implementing the research activities.
* Develop technical assistance, training, workshop plans or training materials and participate in delivering or facilitating these interactions with partners.
* Lead project- related communications, logistics, and technical support.
* Engage in occasional travel to conferences and partner sites.
Dissemination of Findings (20%)
* The RS will support the dissemination of findings to variety of audiences and in a variety of formats, including academic publications, online forums, webinars and virtual and in-person presentations.
* They will contribute to manuscript development and report writing.
* They will prepare meeting summaries, progress reports, study deliverables, journal articles and other written materials, and present study findings at meetings as needed.
Administration and operations (10%)
* Work with PI and senior staff with auxiliary project management duties as requested and anticipate additional areas for support.
* Serve on 1-2 Seven Directions internal committees.
Minimum Requirements
* A Master's Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Information School, American Indian Studies, or related fields, and a minimum of four years working in the field.
* Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration.
Additional Requirements
* Familiarity with or work experience with Indigenous or other underserved populations and settings.
* Familiarity with issues affecting American Indian and Alaska Native Indigenous health, healing, cultural diversity and strengths.
* Familiarity with public health evaluation including Indigenous evaluation.
* Demonstrated fluency in Quantitative and/or Qualitative and/or Mixed Methods research methodology.
* Ability to design interview guides, conduct one-on-one interviews and facilitation of focus groups, organize and analyze and summarize qualitative data (interviews, stories etc.).
* Ability to develop survey instruments, collect, analyze, interpret and summarize quantitative data.
* Experience in community engagement or community based participatory research (CBPR).
* Knowledgeable about substance use and disorder in general and among AI/AN communities.
* Experience designing and implementing research studies, including identifying and appropriate research instruments and methodologies.
* Experience leading the successful publication of grey and scientific literature.
* Knowledge and experience with the grant writing process.
* Knowledge and prior experience with human subjects institutional review process.
* Baseline knowledge of appropriately indicated statistical design based on desired analysis.
* Familiarity with literature management software packages, e.g., EndNote, Zotero, etc. and qualitative software management and analysis software packages, e.g., Dedoose, Atlas.ti etc.
* Experience working closely as a trusted resource with communities to identify needs, define strategy, develop action plans, identify deliverables, present results, measure outcomes, and provide recommendations.
* Knowledgeable about public health communication best practices and effective communication for different populations.
* Experience developing and facilitating trainings for adult learners.
* Experience facilitating meetings and discussions for internal and external (i.e., community, funders) partners.
Desired Qualifications
* A Doctoral Degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Information School, American Indian Studies, or related fields.
* Four or more years working in or on behalf of tribal nations and American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities in both urban and rural settings.
* Advanced statistical analysis and program software knowledge.
* Familiarity with project management tools and/or software packages, e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, etc.
Compensation, Benefits and Position Details
Pay Range Minimum:
$99,444.00 annual
Pay Range Maximum:
$164,328.00 annual
Other Compensation:
* Benefits:
For information about benefits for this position, visit ****************************************************************************************
Shift:
First Shift (United States of America)
Temporary or Regular?
This is a temporary position
FTE (Full-Time Equivalent):
100.00%
Union/Bargaining Unit:
Not Applicable
About the UW
Working at the University of Washington provides a unique opportunity to change lives - on our campuses, in our state and around the world.
UW employees bring their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world. In return, they enjoy outstanding benefits, opportunities for professional growth and the chance to work in an environment known for its diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.
Our Commitment
The University of Washington is committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful and welcoming community for all. As an equal opportunity employer, the University considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, or veteran status consistent with UW Executive Order No. 81.
To request disability accommodation in the application process, contact the Disability Services Office at ************ or **********.
Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment. Disclosure is required under Washington state law.
$99.4k-164.3k yearly 5d ago
Machine Learning Scientist
Scopely 4.1
Senior principal scientist job in Bellevue, WA
Niantic's Machine Learning Team seeks a Machine Learning Scientist to join our AI/ML team. This role focuses on crafting and implementing machine learning-powered features for our geo-location-based mobile games. You will collaborate closely with product managers, game designers, engineers, and data scientists to craft intelligent game mechanics that respond to player behavior, contextual environments, and geospatial signals.
This is a high-impact, hands-on role ideal for candidates passionate about applying ML to mobile games and real-world data challenges.
Niantic is a leading mobile game developer known for groundbreaking real-world mobile gaming experiences. Our mission is to use new technologies to enrich the human experience and encourage exploration of the world around us. Titles like Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now are just the beginning. We're looking for curious, creative, and purposeful minds to join us on our journey.
Responsibilities
* Craft and develop machine learning models that drive intelligent gameplay features, such as multifaceted content placement, player clustering, and geo-contextual personalization.
* Leverage real-world data (geospatial, temporal, behavioral) to advise in-game decision-making and adapt to player environments in real time.
* Partner with product and design teams to translate gameplay ideas into ML-powered systems.
* Collaborate with data science and data engineering teams to optimize data pipelines for machine learning use cases.
* Collaborate with product and data science teams to perform thorough experimentation, A/B testing, and model evaluation to measure product impact and feature efficiency.
* Contribute to the design of ML infrastructure, tools, and workflows that support the lifecycle of models in production.
* Required in-office 2 days on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Qualifications
* M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related technical field.
* 2+ years of experience developing ML systems in a production environment.
* Proficiency in Python and ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, or similar.
* Experience with applied ML techniques such as supervised learning, clustering, or deep learning.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a product mentality.
* Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to multi-functional teams.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice.
* Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including asynchronous interactions with others.
Plus If...
* Experience building ML features for mobile games or interactive applications.
* Experience with modern data processing frameworks, e.g. Apache Beam or Apache Spark.
* Exposure to active learning methodologies, recommendation systems and real-time model inference.
* Experience with Cloud native model development environments, e.g. GCP or AWS.
* Experience with common machine learning development tools or frameworks, e.g. Jupyter Notebooks, MLflow or Kubeflow.
* Familiarity with geo-contextual modeling, map-based data, and temporal-spatial modeling techniques.
* Solid understanding of geospatial data and location-based modeling challenges.
For candidates in CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA, the annual salary range is provided below. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible for equity, bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, pet insurance, paid holidays, paid Scopely free days, and unlimited paid time off. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
CA, CO, NJ, NY, and WA Annual Salary Range
$158,200 - $185,000 USD
About Us
Scopely is a global interactive entertainment and mobile-first video game company, home to many top, award-winning experiences such as "MONOPOLY GO!," "Star Trek Fleet Command," "Stumble Guys," "MARVEL Strike Force," and "Yahtzee With Buddies," among others.
Scopely creates, publishes, and live-operates immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience across multiple platforms--from mobile, web, PC and beyond.
Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform Playgami that supports one of the most diversified portfolios in the games industry.
Recognized multiple times as one of Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies," Scopely is a multi-billion-dollar business due to its ability to create long-lasting game experiences that players enjoy for years.
Scopely has global operations in more than a dozen markets across Asia, EMEA, and North America, and is home to many internal game development teams, referred to as Scopely Studios, with additional game studio partners across four continents.
Scopely was acquired by Savvy Games Group in July 2023 for $4.9 billion, and is now an independent subsidiary of Savvy.
For more information on Scopely, visit: scopely.com
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Employment at Scopely is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. Scopely does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
$158.2k-185k yearly Auto-Apply 60d+ ago
Staff Applied Scientist
Cisco Systems Canada Co 4.8
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
The application window is expected to close on: 01/16/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the Team
Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer, more resilient digital world with an end-to-end, full-stack platform designed for hybrid, multi-cloud environments. Join the Code Generation group, where we work on automating the code generation process using GenAI techniques. We combine deep AI research expertise with the scale and operational excellence of Splunk and Cisco's global engineering capabilities. Our work spans networking, security, observability, and customer experience, designing and deploying foundation models that enhance reliability, strengthen security, prevent downtime, and deliver predictive insights across Splunk Observability, Security, and Platform at enterprise scale. You'll be part of a culture that values technical excellence, impact-driven innovation, and cross-functional collaboration, all within a flexible, growth-oriented environment.
Your Impact
As a Staff Applied Scientist, you will:
Design, build, and deploy advanced AI models for intelligent code generation, contributing across model architecture, experimentation, evaluation, and integration into production systems.
Push the boundaries of agentic GenAI by developing models that not only generate code but also reason, plan, self-correct, and interact with tools, APIs, and execution environments to improve reliability and usability.
Enhance code-generation capabilities for DSLs and structured languages, helping shape the next generation of developer experiences powered by LLMs in both interactive and automated workflows.
Optimize training and inference workflows through efficient data pipelines, distributed training strategies, and model-level performance improvements to ensure low latency, high accuracy, and cost-effectiveness.
Partner closely with engineering and product teams to ensure research outcomes are aligned with customer needs and translate into scalable, high-impact product features.
Contribute to the scientific culture of the team, sharing best practices in rigorous experimentation, reproducibility, evaluation design, and documentation.
Participate in long-term AI innovation by identifying emerging opportunities, proposing new directions, and shaping roadmap priorities in collaboration with research and engineering leaders.
Minimum Qualifications
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field with 2+ years of industry or post-doctoral research experience;
or a Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant applied ML or research experience.
Demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following:
Large language models for program synthesis, code understanding, or formal languages
Multi-step planning or agentic AI for developer workflows
Strong programming proficiency in Python and hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
Experience translating research prototypes into production systems, including deployment, optimization, and performance evaluation.
Working knowledge of experimental design, benchmarking, reproducibility, evaluation metrics, and scientific documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
LLMs for Code Generation - Experience training, fine-tuning, or adapting models such as Code-LLaMA, CodeT5, StarCoder, or GPT-based code models for program synthesis, bug fixing, refactoring, test generation, static/dynamic analysis, or domain-specific languages (DSLs).
Domain-Specialized Modeling - Experience building models for structured languages such as SQL, DSLs, configuration languages, or proprietary query/automation languages.
Agentic AI & Tool Use - Experience developing systems where models plan, call tools/APIs, self-correct, or execute code iteratively to improve output quality.
Structured Reasoning & Planning - Familiarity with techniques such as chain-of-thought prompting, constrained decoding, self-debugging, or reinforcement learning for code-centric tasks.
Large-Scale Training & Optimization - Experience with distributed training or inference optimization (quantization, LoRA, batching, caching) to improve latency, cost, and accuracy trade-offs.
MLOps & Continuous Evaluation - Exposure to automated retraining, dataset versioning/curation, evaluation harnesses, and reliability monitoring for ML models in production.
Research Visibility - Publications in top AI/ML venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, KDD) and/or meaningful contributions to the LLM/code-gen research community (open-source, tools, datasets, or benchmarks).
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:The starting salary range posted for this position is $193,800.00 to $245,300.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$212,300.00 - $317,100.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$193,800.00 - $282,100.00
* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
$106k-136k yearly est. Auto-Apply 5d ago
Research Scientist
George Washington University 4.1
Senior principal scientist job in Washington
Bookmark this Posting Print Preview | Apply for this Job Please see Special Instructions for more details. Employer will not sponsor for employment Visa status Posting Details I. DEPARTMENT INFORMATION The Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine department strives to deliver the highest quality of professional education and training, and conduct cutting edge research in the areas of biochemistry, molecular genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics with a goal to better understand human disease. Additionally, the department continues to have a long and successful record in training undergraduate, master's, and graduate students at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
There is an immediate opening for a Research Scientist position in Dr. Huimin Yu's laboratory. Dr. Yu's research focuses on the pathological significance of the impaired gut-fat axis in IBD. Using mouse models, human intestinal organoids, and adipose stem cell culture, she has been investigating the molecular crosstalk between intestinal inflammation and mesenteric fat in IBD, including the role of so-called "creeping fat" in Crohn's disease. Her recently published findings suggest a phenotypic and mechanistic causal relationship between a novel adipokine and intestinal inflammation. She hopes that her work in this area will facilitate the development of novel, adipose tissue-based IBD therapies.
JOB DUTIES
* This position is responsible for planning, conducting, and supervising research at a high level, by designing and conducting experiments in a controlled laboratory setting.
* Using extensive experience and judgment, this role will plan independent research, analyze and interpret data, publish results, represent the university at conferences and meetings, develop new theories and methodologies, and lead and direct the work of lower-level research staff, while transferring technical expertise.
Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the
supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position.
Minimum Qualifications:
Qualified candidates will hold a Master's degree plus 5 years of experience or a PhD plus 2 years of experience in a related discipline to include at least 2 years of research and/or college level teaching in a field basic to the work to be performed. Degree must be conferred by the start date of the position.
Additional Required Licenses/Certifications/Posting Specific Minimum Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications:
* Holds a PhD degree plus two years of research experience in basic science research.
* Works independently, expected to perform work based on objectives.
* Manages and executes highly complex or specialized projects or processes.
* Adapts precedent and may make significant departures from traditional approaches to develop solutions to significantly complex problems.
Hiring Range $34,356 - $54,910.88 GW Staff Approach to Pay
How is pay for new employees determined at GW?
Healthcare Benefits
GW offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance, time off & leave, retirement savings, tuition, well-being and various voluntary benefits. For program details and eligibility, please visit *************************************
II. POSITION INFORMATION
Campus Location: Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C. College/School/Department: School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Family Research and Labs Sub-Family Laboratory Research Stream Individual Contributor Level Level 4 Full-Time/Part-Time: Part-Time Hours Per Week: 20 Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 9:00am - 1:00pm Will this job require the employee to work on site? Yes Employee Onsite Status On-campus (in person) Telework: Required Background Check Criminal History Screening, Education/Degree/Certifications Verification, Social Security Number Trace, and Sex Offender Registry Search Special Instructions to Applicants:
Employer will not sponsor for employment Visa status
Internal Applicants Only? No Posting Number: R002343 Job Open Date: 10/31/2025 Job Close Date: Background Screening Successful Completion of a Background Screening will be required as a condition of hire. EEO Statement:
The university is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that does not unlawfully discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
Posting Specific Questions
Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
* * Are you currently employed with The George Washington University?
* No
* Yes
* * For current GW employees, have you completed your Introductory Employment Period (IEP)? (As a reminder, employees in their IEP are not eligible to apply for other internal university staff and research positions until the IEP is complete.)
* Yes, IEP complete
* No, still in IEP
* N/a - not a current GW employee
* * What is your salary range expectation?
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Applicant Documents
Required Documents
* Resume
* Cover Letter
$34.4k-54.9k yearly 60d+ ago
Associate Scientist 3
Weston Solutions Inc. 4.5
Senior principal scientist job in Seattle, WA
At Weston Solutions, Inc. you will do meaningful work and make valuable contributions. Employee-ownership at Weston is a path to professional growth and access to diverse opportunities in a highly connected community that works together across key service areas to make a difference in the environment. Weston continues to evolve and adapt to our changing world as a premier provider of environmental and infrastructure services for over sixty years. In both the public and private sectors our teams help identify, solve, mitigate, and manage critical environmental issues to help clients achieve a more sustainable future.
Weston Solutions, Inc. is seeking a mid-level Associate Geologist, Engineer, or Scientist to work with our Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team (START) performing EPA Investigations, Removal Assessments, and Removal Actions, as well as supporting other federal clients within the Pacific Northwest. This candidate will work within the federal teams providing our clients with accurate and pertinent scientific data according to methods, procedures, and techniques agreed upon. The candidate will provide leadership within a team responsible for delivering sound conclusions and recommendations to clients based upon field investigations and literature reviews within the established project schedules. The position will also be periodically on-call to support EPA emergency response projects as needed.
Location: Seattle, WA
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
* B.S. in a Science and 4-6 years of experience in environmental and/or geotechnical sampling, and/or removal oversight. Oil and hazardous materials emergency response experience is a plus.
* Ability to plan, lead, and participate in site walks, site evaluations, removal assessments, and removal action oversight projects, including oil, and hazardous materials emergency response projects.
* Experience performing site assessments and collecting multimedia samples.
* Exposure to various technical and scientific procedures
* Ability to lift to 50 lbs. (field equipment, PPE, etc.)
* Experience in preparing planning documents to methodically perform field investigations, data reporting, technical report preparation.
* Strong organization and communication skills.
* Attention to detail and self-starter
* Ability to be flexible and adaptable.
* Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat
* Provide technical direction for teams up to 10+ personnel.
Preferred Skills:
* A minimum of four years multimedia sampling. Preferred experience in analytical method selection and data management and interpretation
* Field instrumentation. Proficient in the use of various air and water monitoring instruments (PID/FID, multi gas meters, etc.). Abilities include calibration of field instruments, implementation in field, and interpretation of results.
* Familiarity with the Incident Command System (ICS) 100-800. Completion of ICS courses a plus.
* General understanding of the NCP, Oil Pollution Act and CERCLA.
* 40-Hour HAZWOPER
* Able to work in Levels C/B/A PPE
Technical and Operational Scope:
* Identifies staff in alignment with tasking, plan, and document field activities, and prepare daily and final reports for EPA and other federal clients within established budgets and schedule.
* Exercises judgment on applicability of methods and approaches in use and determines best approaches to problem solving when standard procedures are inadequate.
* Determines best method of data gathering, database management, and analysis of data to achieve goals.
* Consults with outside specialists to obtain most accurate and timely data possible while meeting project specifications and timetables.
* Calibrates and maintains a variety of multi-media monitoring and sampling equipment.
* Knowledge of preparing cost estimates and scope of work for project execution.
* Proficient in the writing of technical documents including sampling, data, and safety plans.
* Use level D-A PPE to make entries into potentially hazardous areas.
* Duties may include rotations as an "on-call" responder available 24 hours a day for one week at a time, and periodic Hazmat and oil spill emergency responses/removal assessment/action assignments.
We fully invest in our people: Weston provides a generous, comprehensive benefits package program that offers employees high value options with solid financial protection, meeting the personal needs of its people and their families.
* Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with base and matching employer stock contributions.
* Paid time off includes personal, holiday, and parental leave.
* Life and disability plans.
* Critical illness and accident plans.
* Work/Life flexibility.
* Professional development opportunities.
Compensation will vary based upon experience, education, skill level, and other compensable factors.