Applied Research Scientist — Frontier AI (Equity)

Fleet AI, Inc.; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fleet AI, Inc. is seeking an Applied Researcher to design and deliver robust environments, realistic data, and challenging tasks that push frontier models beyond today’s limits.

You will collaborate with our technical team to translate partner needs into actionable lab work. You will own engagements end-to-end, bridging lab work with core research, and contribute to reusable platforms that scale across projects.

Qualifications

• Strong engineer with production Python and containers expertise.
• Deep understanding of ML: reward shaping, RL data, supervision, and training dynamics.
• High ownership: ships and owns engagements end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Understand the ask and translate lab requests into actionable deliverables.
• Ship end-to-end environments, tasks, and data ready for training or evaluation.
• Identify failure modes and ensure artifact integrity for high-stakes runs.
• Close the loop by feeding lab findings back to core research to shape next tasks.
• Build reusable platform components for future deliveries.

Skills

Python

Containers

Distributed systems

GPU experience

Job description

Fleet AI, Inc. is seeking an Applied Researcher to design and deliver robust environments, realistic data, and challenging tasks that push frontier models beyond today’s limits.

You will collaborate with our technical team to translate partner needs into actionable lab work. You will own engagements end-to-end, bridging lab work with core research, and contribute to reusable platforms that scale across projects.