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Staff Applied Researcher

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 AI-driven CRM.

Role type

Staff Applied Researcher (ML/NLP)

Builds

Simulated companies, evaluation benchmarks, and product features for deal prediction and system self-improvement.

Domain

AI Research, Machine Learning, CRM, Business Modeling

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

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

Preferred skills

Post-training (SFT, RL, preference optimization), simulation and synthetic data, forecasting on business data, benchmark creation

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 core GTM tasks; Develop techniques for system self-improvement; Model deal probability and ship as product features; Publish research papers and present at conferences; Recruit and mentor research team members