CareerPlan

Applied Researcher - Sovereign AI

San FranciscoRemoteFull-time$150k–$300k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-08
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Build post-training and agent systems for public-sector and regulated-industry settings, operating within strict data, deployment, and access boundaries.

Role type

Applied Researcher (Sovereign AI)

Builds

Post-training pipelines, tool-using domain agents, and high-assurance evaluation frameworks for regulated environments.

Domain

Frontier AI, Sovereign AI, Public Sector, Regulated Industries

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

RL/post-training, private ML systems, high-assurance evaluation, agent safety, regulated-domain ML, Python, experimental judgment

Preferred skills

Publications, open-source systems, benchmarks, shipped products

Technologies

Python

Responsibilities

Build private improvement loops that turn sensitive traces into training signals without crossing data boundaries; Train tool-using domain agents with explicit permissions and traceable actions; Develop high-assurance evaluations for reliability, calibration, and compliance; Run post-training experiments against real baselines to attribute gains to model or data.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC