Foundational Model Research Scientist — Equity & Impact

Sapience AI Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Sapience AI in Seattle, WA seeks a Foundational Model Research Data Scientist to study, adapt, and advance foundation models powering collective intelligence. You will design experiments, evaluate models for language understanding, grounding, and reasoning, and feed insights into the COGENT architecture and MINERVA.

You will apply scientific rigor to a fast-moving field, ensuring responsible AI with trustworthy outputs and translating research into dependable platform capabilities for

Qualifications

• Prior research or applied science work on foundational models, LLMs, or NLP.
• A track record of experiments that led to real advances or sound decisions.
• Experience bridging research and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Foundational model research and experimentation: design and run experiments on foundational models relevant to collective intelligence.
• Model adaptation and fine-tuning: adapt models to professional communities, including alignment and grounding.
• Evaluation and measurement: build rigorous evaluation for accuracy, groundedness, safety, and trust.
• Integration with COGENT: feed model advances into the COGENT architecture and study neural and symbolic methods together.
• Staying at the frontier: track the field and bring in advances that matter.
• Responsible and trustworthy AI: study and reduce failure modes, ensure safety and trust.

Job description

Sapience AI in Seattle, WA seeks a Foundational Model Research Data Scientist to study, adapt, and advance foundation models powering collective intelligence. You will design experiments, evaluate models for language understanding, grounding, and reasoning, and feed insights into the COGENT architecture and MINERVA.

You will apply scientific rigor to a fast-moving field, ensuring responsible AI with trustworthy outputs and translating research into dependable platform capabilities for