Applied AI Research Scientist, Agents — Build Deployed Agents

Lumafield; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

competitive cash and equity компенсаs

health & wellness stipend

401k

parential leave

flexible PTO

commuter benefits

company wide events and more!

Job summary

Lumafield in San Francisco is hiring an Applied Research Scientist, Agents to advance its AI-powered agent stack. You will work across the stack from harness and eval development to fine-tuning encoders for spatial reasoning, using manufacturing and design data not available elsewhere.

You will benchmark local LLMs, VLMs, and perception encoders, fine-tune models on domain data, and build real, deployed agents that customers rely on, with close collaboration with product and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Strong Python, data, and algorithms foundations.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, VLMs, and vision transformers.
• Excellent technical communicator.
• Experience building deployed AI agents.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark local LLMs, VLMs, and perception encoders.
• Fine tune and post-train models on domain-specific data.
• Develop harnesses and deployed agents that customers use.
• Develop evaluations that predict real world agent performance accurately.
• Partner with product and engineering to improve agents and agentic workflows.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Algorithms

Vision transformers

LLMs basics

Job description

Lumafield in San Francisco is hiring an Applied Research Scientist, Agents to advance its AI-powered agent stack. You will work across the stack from harness and eval development to fine-tuning encoders for spatial reasoning, using manufacturing and design data not available elsewhere.

You will benchmark local LLMs, VLMs, and perception encoders, fine-tune models on domain data, and build real, deployed agents that customers rely on, with close collaboration with product and engineering teams.