CareerPlan

Staff Research Scientist

HQ: San FranciscoFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead applied research projects to build a Business World Model using simulation, world modeling, and self-improvement techniques for CRM AI.

Role type

Staff Research Scientist (Applied AI/LLMs)

Builds

Simulated companies, evaluation benchmarks, deal prediction models, and self-improving AI systems

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Business Simulation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Applied research in ML/NLP, LLM evaluation and agent design, reinforcement learning, Python, experimental design, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL

Preferred skills

Post-training (SFT, RL, preference optimization), building simulations/synthetic data, forecasting on business data, creating adopted benchmarks

Technologies

LLMs, Python, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, arXiv

Responsibilities

Lead research projects in evaluation, benchmarks, deal prediction, simulation, and self-improvement; Design empirical evaluations using LLM-as-judge and A/B tests; Build benchmarks for GTM tasks; Develop self-improvement techniques including RL; Model deal probability and ship as product features; Publish research papers and blog posts; Recruit and mentor research teammates