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Research Scientist, Foundation Model

Freiburg💼 Full-time🗓 2025-01-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Drive the core model agenda for tabular foundation models, defining research directions, designing novel architectures, and publishing work that advances the field while ensuring ideas translate into production models.

Role type

Research Scientist, Foundation Model (Tabular Data)

Builds

Cutting-edge tabular foundation models, multimodal models combining tabular/text/numerical understanding, and efficient architectures for real-world deployment.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Tabular Data, Structured Data

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

Transformer architecture design, PyTorch, deep learning training dynamics, scaling behavior analysis, Python engineering, causal understanding in models

Preferred skills

Early-stage startup experience, open-source ML contributions, model distillation, inference optimization, tabular data/time series background

Technologies

PyTorch, Transformers

Responsibilities

Define research directions for tabular foundation models, design novel model architectures, publish top-tier research, optimize models for real-world deployment efficiency, build multimodal models combining structured and unstructured data

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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