CareerPlan

Staff Research Scientist - Foundation & World Models

New YorkFull-time$320k2026-10-07 → 2026-11-11

Core

Drive research in foundation models, world models, and multimodal learning to advance large-scale pre-training on distributed system telemetry data.

Role type

Staff Research Scientist (hands-on IC)

Builds

Large-scale multimodal models and research artifacts for observability

Domain

AI Research / Observability / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

foundation models, world models, multimodal learning, generative modeling, large-scale deep learning, model training, evaluation, research direction setting, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

experience with non-text modalities, track record of influential publications

Technologies

large language models, telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces, topology, events)

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for research programs, own research problems end-to-end, train large-scale multimodal models, mentor researchers and engineers, collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to publications and open-source artifacts

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence