Senior AI Research Scientist: Frontier Models & Benchmarks

Space Executive; Greater London; Presencial; GBP 120.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Space Executive is seeking a Principal Research Scientist to lead hands-on work on frontier models, testing, measurement, and stress-testing. This senior, IC role blends code and papers, delivering measurable results customers can act on.

You will work with clients and their teams, build benchmarks and tooling, run rapid research sprints, and ship capabilities with engineering and product. Deep expertise in LLMs, foundation models, and evaluation is required; PhD or MSc in CS/ML is preferred.

Formación

• PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI or a related discipline, backed by substantial research experience.
• First-author or significant contributions at top venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL or comparable.
• Outstanding engineering ability, including advanced Python and PyTorch, and a track record of building and evaluating sophisticated AI systems.
• Comfort owning experiments end to end and delivering results on short timelines.
• Deep expertise in LLMs, foundation models and evaluation methodology.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to stay effective in a fast-moving environment shaped by customer needs.
• Time at a frontier AI lab is a significant plus.

Responsabilidades

• Lead hands-on research into frontier models, including reasoning, agentic and multimodal systems.
• Build and continuously refine benchmarks, evaluation suites and experimental infrastructure.
• Run fast, focused research sprints that move from hypothesis to prototype to validated result.
• Surface where models fall short, where current evaluation methods miss the mark, and where new research directions are opening up.
• Partner directly with customers and their technical teams to frame open-ended problems as concrete research questions.
• Work alongside engineering and product to turn findings into capabilities that ship.

Conocimientos

Python

PyTorch

LLMs

Research excellence

Experimentation

Communication

Time management

Educación

PhD in Computer Science

MSc in AI/ML

Herramientas

Python

PyTorch

Descripción del empleo

Space Executive is seeking a Principal Research Scientist to lead hands-on work on frontier models, testing, measurement, and stress-testing. This senior, IC role blends code and papers, delivering measurable results customers can act on.

You will work with clients and their teams, build benchmarks and tooling, run rapid research sprints, and ship capabilities with engineering and product. Deep expertise in LLMs, foundation models, and evaluation is required; PhD or MSc in CS/ML is preferred.