CareerPlan

AI Research Scientist — Agentic AI and Foundation Models

Santa Clara, CaliforniaFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-10-22

Core

Research and develop language models and intelligent agents for complex technical tasks in software and hardware development.

Role type

Senior IC AI Research Scientist (Agentic AI & Foundation Models)

Builds

Production-ready models, agents, and evaluation benchmarks for software/hardware workflows

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Hardware Design

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM pre-training/post-training, reinforcement learning, agent design, reasoning and planning, tool use, Python, deep learning frameworks, distributed training, synthetic data generation, benchmark creation

Preferred skills

Publications in NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/ACL/EMNLP, RTL optimization, formal verification, compilers, GPU kernels

Technologies

Python, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Synthetic Data, Benchmarks

Responsibilities

Research methods for reasoning, planning, tool use, and memory; Develop pre-training and post-training approaches; Build learning pipelines with curated corpora and agent trajectories; Apply reinforcement learning for agent performance; Investigate inference-time reasoning and search; Develop agents for code generation and verification; Create benchmarks for correctness and generalization; Collaborate with software and hardware teams; Publish research findings

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC