Research Scientist

San Francisco on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

Overview

Join our core R&D team building end-to-end automated research systems.

📰 Zochi publishes the first fully-AI generated A* conference paper

📰 Locus becomes the first AI-system to outperform human experts at AI R&D

Key Responsibilities

  • Design & implement novel architectures for automated research.

  • Collaborate with a focused group of researchers tackling problems at the forefront of long-horizon agentic capabilities, post-training for open-ended goals, and environment development.

  • Publish internal key-findings along with external collaboration success stories.

Qualifications

  • PhD or equivalent research experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field. Exceptional candidates with strong research contributions are encouraged to apply regardless of formal degree.

  • Proven track-record of high-impact AI/ML research contributions in either the academic or corporate settings.

  • Expertise in developing long horizon. multi-agent systems and/or model post-training, with a focus on capabilities. Even better if built for scientific domains and/or open-ended discovery purposes.

  • Passion for accelerating the process of problem-solving & scientific discovery, with comfort in high-autonomy roles & environments.

Our Culture

  • Competitive salary & equity packages.

  • Unlimited PTO with a focus on on-site team-building & communal work environment.

  • Conference attendance & involvement in community-facing events.

  • High-agency & responsibility.

#1: We are are small, dedicated group of top investors, researchers, and industry veterans, dedicated to the mission of accelerating discovery. Join us.
About this role

Summary

Design, develop, and publish AI research for automated scientific discovery in a collaborative environment.

Job title

Research Scientist

Experience level

PhD or equivalent

Industry

software

Location requirements

San Francisco, no remote work mentioned

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

research contributionsai ml expertiselong horizon systems

Preferred skills

scientific domainsopen-ended discovery

Specializations

artificial intelligencemachine learningmulti-agent systemsmodel post-training
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City