Edge AI Scientist — Remote (TS/SCI)

EdgeRunner AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision coverage

Remote-first culture

401K

Unlimited PTO

IT stipend

Job summary

EdgeRunner AI seeks a field-ready Research role to engage with customers, prototype solutions, and advance world-class AI for the warfighter. You will travel to customer sites, train models, evaluate AI systems, and collaborate with engineering and business teams to deliver capabilities in dynamic environments.

Preferred candidates have PhD-level experience or equivalent research background, with a track record in RL, data ablations, and multimodal AI.

Qualifications

• Experience with experimentation in RL and large-scale AI training domains.
• Experience across data ablations, pretraining, and multimodal modeling is valued.
• Ability to translate business objectives into technical solutions and engage with customers.

Responsibilities

• Represent EdgeRunner Research in the field for customer engagements and projects.
• Travel on-site to meet with customers for prototyping, scoping, and implementation of new solutions.
• Train models, evaluate AI systems and harnesses, and bring world-class AI to the warfighter.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Data ablations

Pretraining/Midtraining

Vision & multimodal training

Machine translation

Training data development

Benchmark development

Inference optimization

Agentic harness development

Robotics integration of LLMs

Education

PhD preferred

Job description

EdgeRunner AI seeks a field-ready Research role to engage with customers, prototype solutions, and advance world-class AI for the warfighter. You will travel to customer sites, train models, evaluate AI systems, and collaborate with engineering and business teams to deliver capabilities in dynamic environments.

Preferred candidates have PhD-level experience or equivalent research background, with a track record in RL, data ablations, and multimodal AI.