We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist who is creative, self-driven, curious, people-oriented and comfortable defining a path through ambiguity towards high-level goals. This role is ideal for candidates passionate about building real-world systems that unify different textual modalities and agentic experiences to power next-generation user experiences across devices and platforms.
As a senior member of the team, you will be a tech lead and drive innovation across model architectures, training, and deployment. You will play a key role in converting cutting-edge research into practical applications and experiences for users across the globe by proven skills in product experiences: understanding requirements, setting partner expectations and communicating across team boundaries.
Research areas of interest include but are certainly not limited to reinforcement learning, agentic systems multimodal modeling, post-training techniques and their application, human-centered artificial intelligence (AI), domain-specific large language model (LLM) applications (e.g. long-form writing assistance), personalization, computational social science, memory, agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), real-time AI systems, collaborative AI, privacy-preserving AI, trustworthy AI, data-centric AI, AI flywheels, and multilingual AI.
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