Senior Research Scientist - Real-Time, Efficient AI

adaption; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work: Bay Area collaboration,

Adaption Passport: travel stipend

Lunch Stipend: meal allowance

Well-Being: medical benefits & PTO

Job summary

Adaption seeks a research scientist to build models that evolve with the world, focusing on efficiency, gradient-free exploration, real-time learning, and interface design. You will shape how a model acts and interacts with real-world data, collaborating across software, hardware, and algorithms.

We value candidates who are deeply curious, adaptable, and capable of shipping impactful ideas. A PhD or equivalent experience with published work is preferred, and the role offers global collaboration

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience in computer science.
• 4–5+ years of industry experience.
• Publications at ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, ICLR, EMNLP.

Responsibilities

• Innovation: you have ideas and you move fast; you care about impact.
• Cross-Stack Optimization: collaborate across software, hardware, and algorithms for system-wide efficiency gains.
• Measure What Matters: real-world impact is the primary success signal; product thinking is inseparable from research.

Skills

Python programming

Deep learning

Model optimization

RLHF

Finetuning

System thinking

Real-time learning

Python frameworks

Research collaboration

Education

PhD or equivalent research experience

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

Adaption seeks a research scientist to build models that evolve with the world, focusing on efficiency, gradient-free exploration, real-time learning, and interface design. You will shape how a model acts and interacts with real-world data, collaborating across software, hardware, and algorithms.

We value candidates who are deeply curious, adaptable, and capable of shipping impactful ideas. A PhD or equivalent experience with published work is preferred, and the role offers global collaboration