Founding Applied AI Researcher — Remote, Publishable Work

Morpheus Talent Solutions; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Morpheus Talent Solutions seeks a founding Applied AI Researcher focused on model evaluation and data strategy for an early-stage, profitable AI research company. This research-first seat requires designing evaluations, testing hypotheses about model failures, and defining data schemas, rubrics, and quality controls in collaboration with engineers to scale programs.

You will publish studies that position the company as a research partner to frontier AI labs, contributing to the field and

Qualifications

• Published research in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, or EMNLP or comparable.
• Designed studies and evals, not just followed someone else's rubric.
• Comfort operating in non-deterministic domains with fast-moving research frameworks.
• Agentic evaluation proficiency; RL environment experience with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design evaluations for multimodal generative, reasoning, tool-use, and agentic systems across modalities.
• Own real experimental design: hypothesize failures, build evals, quantify issues.
• Build RL environments and reward signals in partnership with engineers.
• Create calibration, blind review, and adjudication systems for non-deterministic domains.
• Publish research demonstrating the company as a research partner to the field.

Skills

Python

Publication record

Experimental design

RL environment

Cross-modal understanding

Benchmark design

Human evaluation

Statistical analysis

Research writing

Tools

model APIs

Job description

Morpheus Talent Solutions seeks a founding Applied AI Researcher focused on model evaluation and data strategy for an early-stage, profitable AI research company. This research-first seat requires designing evaluations, testing hypotheses about model failures, and defining data schemas, rubrics, and quality controls in collaboration with engineers to scale programs.

You will publish studies that position the company as a research partner to frontier AI labs, contributing to the field and