Founding Research Scientist, Applied AI

What You'll Work on

• Multimodal intelligence. Build systems that understand creators, brands, briefs, and content across video, audio, image, and text.
• Ranking, recommendation, and prediction. Develop models that predict creator-brand fit and campaign outcomes and make better decisions from sparse, heterogeneous feedback.

• Foundation models and agents.
• Apply LLMs and multimodal models to campaign planning, discovery, creative understanding, execution, and optimization.
• Use Agentio's proprietary data for prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, post-training, and, where it makes sense, specialized model training.

• Learning and decision-making. Turn campaign data into training signals, evals, and learning loops while tackling problems in optimization, exploration, measurement, and marketplace dynamics.
• Part of the role is deciding which advances in AI and ML are useful for Agentio and where new methods are needed.

What You'll Do

• Own research problems from problem formulation through experimentation, validation, and product application.
• Design rigorous experiments and evaluations, develop new methods where needed, and establish evidence that research advances improve product and marketplace outcomes.
• Develop models, algorithms, training approaches, datasets, and evaluation methods when existing techniques are insufficient. Partner with engineering to turn successful research into reliable product capabilities.
• Help define Agentio's research agenda, identify high-value research questions, and set a high bar for experimental rigor across applied ML work.

Who We're Looking for

We're looking for a researcher with strong technical depth who wants their work to change a production product, not stop at a paper or prototype.

• PhD in machine learning, AI, computer science, statistics, or a related field, with a track record of original ML research demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications or comparable research contributions.
• Depth in one or more areas such as foundation models, multimodal learning, recommendation and ranking, representation learning, reinforcement learning and decision-making, causal inference, optimization, or adjacent fields.
• Experience applying research to real products or production systems, including turning ambiguous product problems into research questions and translating successful results into measurable product improvements.
• Strong implementation skills: you can prototype your own ideas, work directly with large datasets and modern ML stacks, and collaborate closely with engineers on productionization.
• Strong knowledge of current AI research and the judgment to distinguish technically interesting work from approaches that will matter in practice.

What You'll Get

• The opportunity to build the research function at a first-of-its kind business and make a meaningful impact in the way brands share their stories and creators live off their work.
• Crash-course in what it takes to scale a start-up with first-hand exposure to the different foundational business drivers and needs.
• The chance to work with an exceptional team and help build our engineering culture
• A collaborative, transparent, and engaging work environment.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible PTO - Take the time you need to recharge
• Comprehensive Health Coverage - Top medical plan through Aetna
• Dental & Vision Plans - Protect your smile and your sight with coverage from Guardian
• 401(k) Retirement Plan - Invest in your future while you build your career
• $100 Monthly Lifestyle Credit - Use it to shop with our amazing Agentio Brand Partners
• Daily lunches and snacks in the office to keep you at your best
• Dinner provided Monday - Thursday
• Fully subsidized gold tier access on Wellhub (Includes LifeTime, Barry's, Solidcore, Headspace, etc)
• Gym in the building! - Your workout, right downstairs

Agentio is an equal-opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.