Founding Applied Researcher- Multimodal/Generative Media
User experience researcher job in San Jose, CA
Role: Founding Applied Researcher
Commitment: Full-Time, In Person
Salary: up to $300k + 2% equity
Must have previous AI/Multimodal/Generative systems experience
About the Role
Our client are building a fast-growing marketplace connecting elite creative talent award-winning artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians with leading AI labs developing next-generation generative media models (e.g., state-of-the-art video, audio, and multimodal systems).
A small, high-talent-density team with backgrounds from top universities and research-driven organizations, backed by founders and senior researchers from frontier AI labs and industry-leading research groups.
They value initiative over instruction, autonomy over consensus, and reward exceptional talent with exceptional upside both in compensation and impact.
Role Overview
As a Founding Applied Researcher, you will design and build the next generation of generative media benchmarks evaluations that meaningfully push the boundaries of what foundation models can understand, generate, and perform.
You will collaborate directly with researchers at frontier labs and fast-moving startups, helping define evaluation standards for multimodal and generative systems. This is a rare opportunity to own critical research efforts from day one, work on deeply novel challenges, and shape the direction of the field.
What You'll Do
Design, develop, and validate new benchmarks that test advanced real-world capabilities in generative media models
Create novel evaluation methodologies, including dataset construction, task formulation, and scoring frameworks
Collaborate closely with researchers at leading AI labs to identify gaps in existing evaluation pipelines and define new standards
Prototype and iterate rapidly, balancing scientific rigor with practical constraints
Influence research direction and help define best practices for a growing applied research organization
What We're Looking For
Academic & Research Background
Master's degree or PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Science, or a related field
Exceptional undergraduates with strong research track records are also encouraged to apply
Demonstrated research excellence through publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, or similar
Technical Skills
Strong proficiency in Python for research, prototyping, and experimentation
Experience with evaluation, benchmarking, or model analysis
Familiarity with multimodal systems, generative models, or foundation model behavior is a plus
Mindset & Attributes
Strong initiative and comfort operating autonomously
Eagerness to tackle open-ended problems with no established playbook
Ability to collaborate with industry researchers and clearly communicate findings
Compensation & Ownership
Competitive equity package with true founding-level ownership
Opportunity to define foundational research culture and influence product direction from inception
Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in San Jose, CA
SUPERCOMPUTING AI LAB W/ MULTIMODAL GENERAL AGENT AI STARTUP - SERIES A $1.2B VALUATION
Goliath Partners has exclusively teamed up with an early stage startup AI Lab in SF currently valued at over $1B just after announcing their Series A. The firm has fundamental research bets on next-gen model architectures for long term memory and continual learning. Have lots of GPUs and are planning to get to frontier soon on the model side.
Funding wise, their Series A was led by none other than Jann Tallinn. Jann has only led two other Series A's in the past - DeepMind and Anthropic! The team includes ex-DeepMind, Nvidia, Anthropic and Twitter professionals, and they are operating at the cutting edge of the AI space.
They're hiring an ML Research Engineer to:
Design and implement autonomous agents that can code, reason, and self-verify across real software environments
Build full-stack infrastructure for prompt routing, task planning, retrieval, and sandboxed execution
Apply post-training techniques (SFT, DPO, RLHF) and build eval benchmarks for multi-step reasoning and coding tasks
Total Comp: $300-325k from a base perspective. Equity will also be involved at anywhere from .1% - 1% (equaling $1-10M in equity).
If this sounds interesting, I'd love to share more. Please apply with an updated copy of your resume and Goliath will get in touch!
Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in San Jose, CA
Research Scientist
We're representing a cutting-edge AI organization building autonomous systems that can
reason, plan, and interact with the physical world.
This is a chance to join a small, elite research team pushing the frontier of LLM-driven autonomy.
⭐ The Opportunity
You'll lead research that powers intelligent agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, structured tool-use, and real-world decision-making. This is deep ML research with immediate, tangible impact.
What You'll Work On
Building LLM reasoning and planning frameworks
Designing structured tool-use, memory, reflection, and multi-step workflows
Developing safe, robust policies for autonomous systems
Training and evaluating models across real engineering and scientific tasks
Collaborating with systems, simulation, and infrastructure experts
What We're Looking For
Strong research background in LLMs, reasoning, or agents
Experience with SFT, RLHF/DPO, verifier-guided RL, or related training techniques
Ability to design and evaluate long-horizon behaviors
Comfort working in a fast, interdisciplinary R&D environment
Why Join
Build models that control real physical-world systems, NOT just simulations
Massive scope for autonomy, creativity, and impact
Competitive compensation + meaningful ownership
Online Research Participant - Earn Cash for Sharing Your Views
User experience researcher job in Reedley, CA
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Geospatial & Immersive Environments UX/Interaction Designer
User experience researcher job in San Francisco, CA
We are seeking a thoughtful, detail-oriented UX/Interaction Designer to help shape next-generation geospatial and immersive product experiences. This role focuses on designing intuitive interactions, UI workflows, and visual systems for applications that empower users to explore, analyze, and visualize geospatial data. You will work closely with cross-functional partners to translate complex user needs into elegant, usable, and scalable design solutions.
Responsibilities:
Translate user insights into wireframes, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs using user-centered design methods.
Explore multiple design directions quickly, articulate strong rationale, and refine solutions based on feedback.
Produce journey maps, interaction models, and thoughtful interaction details for geospatial or immersive product experiences.
Contribute to and extend design systems that support consistency across platforms and surfaces.
Collaborate with researchers, PMs, engineers, and other designers to define requirements and develop end-to-end interaction workflows.
Ensure designs meet accessibility, usability, and cross-platform standards.
Communicate design decisions clearly through documentation, specs, and presentations.
Experience (Required):
5+ years of experience in UX/Interaction Design, crafting workflows, wireframes, mocks, and prototypes.
Strong proficiency with Figma and modern design/prototyping tools.
Experience designing for geospatial apps, map interactions, immersive environments, or data visualization products.
Demonstrated expertise in user-centered design, interaction principles, and design thinking from concept to launch.
Experience working with and contributing to design systems.
Ability to present solid design rationale and evaluate multiple design options quickly.
Strong collaboration skills and experience working across multidisciplinary teams.
Experience (Desired):
Experience in visual design that enhances clarity, hierarchy, and overall usability.
Exposure to motion design or basic prototyping approaches (e.g., clickthroughs, vibe-coding) that elevate interaction quality.
Familiarity with designing for accessibility and cross-platform environments (web, mobile, immersive).
Understanding of geospatial behaviors, map interactions, or spatial information visualization.
Education:
Bachelor's or degree in or a related field or equivalent work experience.
About US Tech Solutions:
US Tech Solutions is a global staff augmentation firm providing a wide range of talent on-demand and total workforce solutions. To know more about US Tech Solutions, please visit ***********************
US Tech Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Recruiter's email id: *****************************
JobDiva ID: 25-54669
User Experience Designer
User experience researcher job in Los Angeles, CA
Project Description:
Our Customer is one of the world's largest investment management companies. Based in Southern California, our client manages close to $2 trillion in assets and is looking for a new partner to participate in a full scale upgrade of their technology. We are looking for talented and ambitious people to work on the first engagement in the client's offices near Los Angeles, California.
This position is to provide design for Investment Group Technology applications.
Responsibilities:
Collaborating with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience.
Executing all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering (process flows, sketches, scenarios, wireframes, navigation models, visual design).
Conceptualizing original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
Mandatory Skills Description:
Obsessed with good user-centered design practices and are detail-oriented.
Must have a strong UI/UX design portfolio.
Solid experience in creating process flows, sketches, scenarios, wireframes, navigation models and visual design.
Must be able to present ideas creatively and effectively.
Must be up to date with latest UI trends, technologies and design practices.
Restaurant Team Member
User experience researcher job in Fresno, CA
Earn up to $20-20.25 an hour plus tips! Stop in for an in-person interview from 2-4:30PM daily! Ask for the manager. Cafe Rio is looking to hire energetic Team Members to join our #caferiofamily. We have various level positions available: line cook, prep cook, dishwasher, cashier, and Assistant Management positions are also available!
Serving Up Fresh Opportunities!
* Fun, fast-paced work environment
* Part-Time and Full-Time available
* Health benefits are available for all employees after 90 days of employment
* FREE MEALS on shifts
* 401k with company match $ for $
* Growth opportunities/opportunities for advancement
Piqued your interest? We would love to meet you, so apply today!
Cafe Rio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify
Round Table Team Member
User experience researcher job in Fresno, CA
TEAM MEMBER
Salary Range: $15.50 to $16.50
A Team Member is responsible for providing excellent guest services while performing assigned duties, including, but not limited to preparing and cooking pizza, taking customer orders, serving food, cashier, cleaning: tables, dining room, front and back restaurant areas and restrooms, and washing dishes. Team members ensure company standards are maintained and consistently comply with all policies and procedures to ensure cleanliness, and health and safety standards.
Hospitality Team Member (Nights & Saturdays) - Register / Drive-Thru
User experience researcher job in Parksdale, CA
Are you looking for a second job or one that allows you to work nights & weekends? Great news! Chick-fil-A Topanga & Roscoe in Canoga Park, CA is looking for a Hospitality Team Member to serve in the Front of House on the front counter, register (cashier), dining room and/or drive-thru at night and on Saturdays (we are closed every Sunday).
Roles and Responsibilities:
* Work in various hospitality areas: Front Counter Register, iPOS, Drive-Thru, Dining Room.
* Provide exceptional service that aligns with Chick-fil-A standards and core values, which are: Customer First, Personal Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Working Together, and Stewardship.
* Completing tasks and ensuring that products and guests' experience are consistent with our brand, culture and excellence.
* Communicate clearly with guests, fellow team members and leaders.
* Always courteously greet guests, take orders, explain and suggest menu items.
* Stand for periods of up to 3.5 hours in length
* Maintain a sanitary and safe restaurant by mopping, sweeping floors, removing trash, cleaning equipment, and keeping restrooms/playground clean and neat
* Neatly and accurately Stock products and supplies
* Able to lift up to 45 pounds
* Maintaining a well-groomed and clean appearance and always dressing professional
* Preparing, assembling and serving products to food stations and guests
* Comply with Steritech and Health Inspection Standards
* Assemble, clean, maintain and operate: lemon juicers, soft serve machine and soda towers
* Obtain Food Handler Card with 30 days of Hire
Necessary Skills and Requirements:
* Must be able to work during the hours of 3p-11p during Mon-Sat (part-time is OK)
* A positive attitude
* A hunger to grow
* A desire to work hard in serving others
* A love for people
* Must be able to obtain a work permit, if a minor
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
* Experience working in a team-orientated environment
* Ability to work and move with a sense of urgency
* Basic mathematical skills
Your Impact:
* Provide world-renown hospitality and customer service
* Work in high-performance teams in multiple areas: Front Counter Register, Dining Room, Drive-Thru
* Provide unforgettable hospitality within and even beyond the four walls of our restaurant
* Have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A, and the community
* Change lives as you interact with guests through what we call the CORE 4: maintain eye contact, share a smile, speaking enthusiastically, and creating a personal connection.
* Participate in a fast-paced, upbeat environment that serves guests in record times with top quality products,
* Maintain a refreshingly clean environment
Your Opportunity
* With over 80 employees at this location and multiple tiers of leadership, there's plenty of room to grow!
* Path for growth includes: Trainer & Certified Trainer, Team Leader, Assistant Director & Director, and Executive levels.
Our Commitment to You:
* Work in a positive environment where you'll feel like you're a part of the family
* Receive focused training by leaders who care about you professionally and personally.
* Given a clear growth path and tools to advance through leadership
* Ability to learn valuable skills from one of the fastest-growing, most recognized and highly praised brands.
* Sundays off!
Additional Info:
* Part-Time/Full-Time
* Competitive Pay
* Proof of eligibility to work in the U.S. required
* We're an Equal Opportunity Employer
Benefits of joining the Chick-fil-A at Topanga & Roscoe family:
* Closed on Sunday! All Chick-fil-A restaurants are closed on Sundays so you can have a day off to spend with family and friends!
* Employee Meals! You'll receive discounted and/or free meals if we select you to join our work family!
* Flexible Hours...You probably have commitments to your family, friends, school or sports teams. We will try to arrange your work schedule around them.
* College Scholarships...At Chick-fil-A, we believe everyone deserves an education. We offer Leadership Scholarships to eligible employees who qualify.
* Competitive Pay...Along with a competitive paycheck, you will work in a nurturing environment where you will learn valuable business and people skills.
* It's a Friendly Place to Work...At Chick-fil-A, we consider our team to be more than just employees. Our extremely low turnover rate is proof that people love working here.
Working at Chick-fil-A Topanga & Roscoe is more than a job - it's an opportunity for teamwork and leadership development in a positive, people-focused environment. Most Chick-fil-A restaurants are locally owned and operated by independent, franchised Operators who invest in the future of their Team Members and give back to their communities.
Founding Applied Researcher- Multimodal/Generative Media
User experience researcher job in Santa Rosa, CA
Role: Founding Applied Researcher
Commitment: Full-Time, In Person
Salary: up to $300k + 2% equity
Must have previous AI/Multimodal/Generative systems experience
About the Role
Our client are building a fast-growing marketplace connecting elite creative talent award-winning artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians with leading AI labs developing next-generation generative media models (e.g., state-of-the-art video, audio, and multimodal systems).
A small, high-talent-density team with backgrounds from top universities and research-driven organizations, backed by founders and senior researchers from frontier AI labs and industry-leading research groups.
They value initiative over instruction, autonomy over consensus, and reward exceptional talent with exceptional upside both in compensation and impact.
Role Overview
As a Founding Applied Researcher, you will design and build the next generation of generative media benchmarks evaluations that meaningfully push the boundaries of what foundation models can understand, generate, and perform.
You will collaborate directly with researchers at frontier labs and fast-moving startups, helping define evaluation standards for multimodal and generative systems. This is a rare opportunity to own critical research efforts from day one, work on deeply novel challenges, and shape the direction of the field.
What You'll Do
Design, develop, and validate new benchmarks that test advanced real-world capabilities in generative media models
Create novel evaluation methodologies, including dataset construction, task formulation, and scoring frameworks
Collaborate closely with researchers at leading AI labs to identify gaps in existing evaluation pipelines and define new standards
Prototype and iterate rapidly, balancing scientific rigor with practical constraints
Influence research direction and help define best practices for a growing applied research organization
What We're Looking For
Academic & Research Background
Master's degree or PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Science, or a related field
Exceptional undergraduates with strong research track records are also encouraged to apply
Demonstrated research excellence through publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, or similar
Technical Skills
Strong proficiency in Python for research, prototyping, and experimentation
Experience with evaluation, benchmarking, or model analysis
Familiarity with multimodal systems, generative models, or foundation model behavior is a plus
Mindset & Attributes
Strong initiative and comfort operating autonomously
Eagerness to tackle open-ended problems with no established playbook
Ability to collaborate with industry researchers and clearly communicate findings
Compensation & Ownership
Competitive equity package with true founding-level ownership
Opportunity to define foundational research culture and influence product direction from inception
Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in Santa Rosa, CA
SUPERCOMPUTING AI LAB W/ MULTIMODAL GENERAL AGENT AI STARTUP - SERIES A $1.2B VALUATION
Goliath Partners has exclusively teamed up with an early stage startup AI Lab in SF currently valued at over $1B just after announcing their Series A. The firm has fundamental research bets on next-gen model architectures for long term memory and continual learning. Have lots of GPUs and are planning to get to frontier soon on the model side.
Funding wise, their Series A was led by none other than Jann Tallinn. Jann has only led two other Series A's in the past - DeepMind and Anthropic! The team includes ex-DeepMind, Nvidia, Anthropic and Twitter professionals, and they are operating at the cutting edge of the AI space.
They're hiring an ML Research Engineer to:
Design and implement autonomous agents that can code, reason, and self-verify across real software environments
Build full-stack infrastructure for prompt routing, task planning, retrieval, and sandboxed execution
Apply post-training techniques (SFT, DPO, RLHF) and build eval benchmarks for multi-step reasoning and coding tasks
Total Comp: $300-325k from a base perspective. Equity will also be involved at anywhere from .1% - 1% (equaling $1-10M in equity).
If this sounds interesting, I'd love to share more. Please apply with an updated copy of your resume and Goliath will get in touch!
Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in Santa Rosa, CA
Research Scientist
We're representing a cutting-edge AI organization building autonomous systems that can
reason, plan, and interact with the physical world.
This is a chance to join a small, elite research team pushing the frontier of LLM-driven autonomy.
⭐ The Opportunity
You'll lead research that powers intelligent agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, structured tool-use, and real-world decision-making. This is deep ML research with immediate, tangible impact.
What You'll Work On
Building LLM reasoning and planning frameworks
Designing structured tool-use, memory, reflection, and multi-step workflows
Developing safe, robust policies for autonomous systems
Training and evaluating models across real engineering and scientific tasks
Collaborating with systems, simulation, and infrastructure experts
What We're Looking For
Strong research background in LLMs, reasoning, or agents
Experience with SFT, RLHF/DPO, verifier-guided RL, or related training techniques
Ability to design and evaluate long-horizon behaviors
Comfort working in a fast, interdisciplinary R&D environment
Why Join
Build models that control real physical-world systems, NOT just simulations
Massive scope for autonomy, creativity, and impact
Competitive compensation + meaningful ownership
Online Research Participant - Earn Cash for Sharing Your Views
User experience researcher job in Seaside, CA
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Founding Applied Researcher- Multimodal/Generative Media
User experience researcher job in San Francisco, CA
Role: Founding Applied Researcher
Commitment: Full-Time, In Person
Salary: up to $300k + 2% equity
Must have previous AI/Multimodal/Generative systems experience
About the Role
Our client are building a fast-growing marketplace connecting elite creative talent award-winning artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians with leading AI labs developing next-generation generative media models (e.g., state-of-the-art video, audio, and multimodal systems).
A small, high-talent-density team with backgrounds from top universities and research-driven organizations, backed by founders and senior researchers from frontier AI labs and industry-leading research groups.
They value initiative over instruction, autonomy over consensus, and reward exceptional talent with exceptional upside both in compensation and impact.
Role Overview
As a Founding Applied Researcher, you will design and build the next generation of generative media benchmarks evaluations that meaningfully push the boundaries of what foundation models can understand, generate, and perform.
You will collaborate directly with researchers at frontier labs and fast-moving startups, helping define evaluation standards for multimodal and generative systems. This is a rare opportunity to own critical research efforts from day one, work on deeply novel challenges, and shape the direction of the field.
What You'll Do
Design, develop, and validate new benchmarks that test advanced real-world capabilities in generative media models
Create novel evaluation methodologies, including dataset construction, task formulation, and scoring frameworks
Collaborate closely with researchers at leading AI labs to identify gaps in existing evaluation pipelines and define new standards
Prototype and iterate rapidly, balancing scientific rigor with practical constraints
Influence research direction and help define best practices for a growing applied research organization
What We're Looking For
Academic & Research Background
Master's degree or PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Science, or a related field
Exceptional undergraduates with strong research track records are also encouraged to apply
Demonstrated research excellence through publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, or similar
Technical Skills
Strong proficiency in Python for research, prototyping, and experimentation
Experience with evaluation, benchmarking, or model analysis
Familiarity with multimodal systems, generative models, or foundation model behavior is a plus
Mindset & Attributes
Strong initiative and comfort operating autonomously
Eagerness to tackle open-ended problems with no established playbook
Ability to collaborate with industry researchers and clearly communicate findings
Compensation & Ownership
Competitive equity package with true founding-level ownership
Opportunity to define foundational research culture and influence product direction from inception
Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in San Francisco, CA
Research Scientist
We're representing a cutting-edge AI organization building autonomous systems that can
reason, plan, and interact with the physical world.
This is a chance to join a small, elite research team pushing the frontier of LLM-driven autonomy.
⭐ The Opportunity
You'll lead research that powers intelligent agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, structured tool-use, and real-world decision-making. This is deep ML research with immediate, tangible impact.
What You'll Work On
Building LLM reasoning and planning frameworks
Designing structured tool-use, memory, reflection, and multi-step workflows
Developing safe, robust policies for autonomous systems
Training and evaluating models across real engineering and scientific tasks
Collaborating with systems, simulation, and infrastructure experts
What We're Looking For
Strong research background in LLMs, reasoning, or agents
Experience with SFT, RLHF/DPO, verifier-guided RL, or related training techniques
Ability to design and evaluate long-horizon behaviors
Comfort working in a fast, interdisciplinary R&D environment
Why Join
Build models that control real physical-world systems, NOT just simulations
Massive scope for autonomy, creativity, and impact
Competitive compensation + meaningful ownership
Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in San Francisco, CA
SUPERCOMPUTING AI LAB W/ MULTIMODAL GENERAL AGENT AI STARTUP - SERIES A $1.2B VALUATION
Goliath Partners has exclusively teamed up with an early stage startup AI Lab in SF currently valued at over $1B just after announcing their Series A. The firm has fundamental research bets on next-gen model architectures for long term memory and continual learning. Have lots of GPUs and are planning to get to frontier soon on the model side.
Funding wise, their Series A was led by none other than Jann Tallinn. Jann has only led two other Series A's in the past - DeepMind and Anthropic! The team includes ex-DeepMind, Nvidia, Anthropic and Twitter professionals, and they are operating at the cutting edge of the AI space.
They're hiring an ML Research Engineer to:
Design and implement autonomous agents that can code, reason, and self-verify across real software environments
Build full-stack infrastructure for prompt routing, task planning, retrieval, and sandboxed execution
Apply post-training techniques (SFT, DPO, RLHF) and build eval benchmarks for multi-step reasoning and coding tasks
Total Comp: $300-325k from a base perspective. Equity will also be involved at anywhere from .1% - 1% (equaling $1-10M in equity).
If this sounds interesting, I'd love to share more. Please apply with an updated copy of your resume and Goliath will get in touch!
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User experience researcher job in Petaluma, CA
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Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in Fremont, CA
SUPERCOMPUTING AI LAB W/ MULTIMODAL GENERAL AGENT AI STARTUP - SERIES A $1.2B VALUATION
Goliath Partners has exclusively teamed up with an early stage startup AI Lab in SF currently valued at over $1B just after announcing their Series A. The firm has fundamental research bets on next-gen model architectures for long term memory and continual learning. Have lots of GPUs and are planning to get to frontier soon on the model side.
Funding wise, their Series A was led by none other than Jann Tallinn. Jann has only led two other Series A's in the past - DeepMind and Anthropic! The team includes ex-DeepMind, Nvidia, Anthropic and Twitter professionals, and they are operating at the cutting edge of the AI space.
They're hiring an ML Research Engineer to:
Design and implement autonomous agents that can code, reason, and self-verify across real software environments
Build full-stack infrastructure for prompt routing, task planning, retrieval, and sandboxed execution
Apply post-training techniques (SFT, DPO, RLHF) and build eval benchmarks for multi-step reasoning and coding tasks
Total Comp: $300-325k from a base perspective. Equity will also be involved at anywhere from .1% - 1% (equaling $1-10M in equity).
If this sounds interesting, I'd love to share more. Please apply with an updated copy of your resume and Goliath will get in touch!
Machine Learning Researcher
User experience researcher job in Fremont, CA
Research Scientist
We're representing a cutting-edge AI organization building autonomous systems that can
reason, plan, and interact with the physical world.
This is a chance to join a small, elite research team pushing the frontier of LLM-driven autonomy.
⭐ The Opportunity
You'll lead research that powers intelligent agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, structured tool-use, and real-world decision-making. This is deep ML research with immediate, tangible impact.
What You'll Work On
Building LLM reasoning and planning frameworks
Designing structured tool-use, memory, reflection, and multi-step workflows
Developing safe, robust policies for autonomous systems
Training and evaluating models across real engineering and scientific tasks
Collaborating with systems, simulation, and infrastructure experts
What We're Looking For
Strong research background in LLMs, reasoning, or agents
Experience with SFT, RLHF/DPO, verifier-guided RL, or related training techniques
Ability to design and evaluate long-horizon behaviors
Comfort working in a fast, interdisciplinary R&D environment
Why Join
Build models that control real physical-world systems, NOT just simulations
Massive scope for autonomy, creativity, and impact
Competitive compensation + meaningful ownership
Founding Applied Researcher- Multimodal/Generative Media
User experience researcher job in Fremont, CA
Role: Founding Applied Researcher
Commitment: Full-Time, In Person
Salary: up to $300k + 2% equity
Must have previous AI/Multimodal/Generative systems experience
About the Role
Our client are building a fast-growing marketplace connecting elite creative talent award-winning artists, filmmakers, designers, and musicians with leading AI labs developing next-generation generative media models (e.g., state-of-the-art video, audio, and multimodal systems).
A small, high-talent-density team with backgrounds from top universities and research-driven organizations, backed by founders and senior researchers from frontier AI labs and industry-leading research groups.
They value initiative over instruction, autonomy over consensus, and reward exceptional talent with exceptional upside both in compensation and impact.
Role Overview
As a Founding Applied Researcher, you will design and build the next generation of generative media benchmarks evaluations that meaningfully push the boundaries of what foundation models can understand, generate, and perform.
You will collaborate directly with researchers at frontier labs and fast-moving startups, helping define evaluation standards for multimodal and generative systems. This is a rare opportunity to own critical research efforts from day one, work on deeply novel challenges, and shape the direction of the field.
What You'll Do
Design, develop, and validate new benchmarks that test advanced real-world capabilities in generative media models
Create novel evaluation methodologies, including dataset construction, task formulation, and scoring frameworks
Collaborate closely with researchers at leading AI labs to identify gaps in existing evaluation pipelines and define new standards
Prototype and iterate rapidly, balancing scientific rigor with practical constraints
Influence research direction and help define best practices for a growing applied research organization
What We're Looking For
Academic & Research Background
Master's degree or PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Science, or a related field
Exceptional undergraduates with strong research track records are also encouraged to apply
Demonstrated research excellence through publications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, or similar
Technical Skills
Strong proficiency in Python for research, prototyping, and experimentation
Experience with evaluation, benchmarking, or model analysis
Familiarity with multimodal systems, generative models, or foundation model behavior is a plus
Mindset & Attributes
Strong initiative and comfort operating autonomously
Eagerness to tackle open-ended problems with no established playbook
Ability to collaborate with industry researchers and clearly communicate findings
Compensation & Ownership
Competitive equity package with true founding-level ownership
Opportunity to define foundational research culture and influence product direction from inception