Gen AI Researcher

Recrew AI; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaboration with IISc faculty

Ownership of core research function

Publish and contribute to AI community

Lean research culture

Job summary

Recrew AI in Bengaluru, a research-first AI company incubated at IISc, seeks a talented AI Researcher to design and build reasoning benchmarks across science and engineering domains. You will develop evaluation pipelines, build agents, and collaborate with IISc faculty and internal teams to advance the company's frontier research and publish results with impact.

This role offers high autonomy in a lean, seed-stage environment and opportunities to shape the core research directions at the

Qualifications

• BTech/MTech/PhD from top-tier institute (IITs/IISc/BITS or equivalent)
• 2+ years AI/ML research experience
• Strong foundations in probability, statistics, and ML
• Hands-on experience with evaluation harnesses and benchmark suites
• Proficient coding and reproducible research pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to build and iterate on AI agents for reasoning/planning tasks

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and validate reasoning benchmarks spanning science and engineering domains
• Develop evaluation pipelines using eval harnesses and benchmark suites to assess AI system performance
• Build and iterate on agents capable of tackling complex reasoning and planning tasks
• Document methodologies, findings, and experimental results to publication-ready standards
• Collaborate with IISc faculty and internal research, agent, and data teams
• Engage with the open-source research community to stay current with frontier developments

Skills

AI/ML research

Evaluation pipelines

Code & software engineering

Agent design

Reasoning/Planning

Education

BTech/MTech/PhD in relevant field

Tools

Eval harnesses

Benchmark suites

SWE-bench

Job description

Function: AI Research

Type: Full-time

Industry: Information Technology & Services

About Company

A research-first AI company incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The company builds advanced AI for the planning and operations of critical networks.

Its core technology is a World Model that augments LLMs to reason about network state and dependencies, even with limited or noisy data. The founding team has raised over $100M in prior ventures and published at leading AI research venues.

Having just closed its seed round, the company is assembling a team of ambitious, frontier-focused researchers.

Position Overview

This role sits at the core of the company's research agenda — designing and building reasoning benchmarks across science and engineering domains to rigorously evaluate AI systems at the frontier of reasoning and planning. You will build evaluation infrastructure, develop agents, and iterate on them against real-world science and engineering tasks. You'll work directly with the founders and IISc faculty in a lean, research-driven environment where your output shapes the company's technical direction.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, build, and validate reasoning benchmarks spanning science and engineering domains, ensuring rigor and reproducibility
• Develop evaluation pipelines using eval harnesses and benchmark suites (e.g., SWE-bench) to systematically assess AI system performance
• Build and iterate on agents capable of tackling complex reasoning and planning tasks, guided by benchmark results
• Contribute to the company's core research agenda — document methodologies, findings, and experimental results to publication-ready standards
• Collaborate closely with IISc faculty, and internal research, agent, and data teams to align benchmark design with real-world network planning problems
• Engage with the open-source research community to stay current with and contribute to frontier developments in reasoning and evaluation

Must Have Criteria

• BTech from a top-tier institute (IITs/IISc/BITS or equivalent) with 2+ years of relevant AI/ML research experience, OR MTech/PhD from a top-tier institute
• Solid foundations in probability, statistics, and machine learning — demonstrable through coursework, research, or published work
• Hands-on experience with evaluation harnesses and benchmark suites (e.g., SWE-bench or comparable frameworks)
• Strong coding and software engineering skills sufficient to build and maintain reproducible research pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to build and iterate on AI agents for reasoning or planning tasks

Nice to Have

• Prior publications at leading AI research venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, or equivalent)
• Prior experience designing or contributing to benchmark datasets or evaluation frameworks
• Familiarity with network planning, operations research, or science/engineering simulation domains
• Experience working in early-stage or research-lab environments with high autonomy

What We Offer

• Direct collaboration with IISc faculty and a founding team with a track record of $100M+ raised and frontier AI publications
• Ownership over a core research function at a seed-stage company building at the frontier of reasoning AI
• Opportunity to publish and contribute to the broader AI research community as part of your role
• Lean, research-first culture with high autonomy and cross-disciplinary exposure across agents, data, and network AI