Founding Applied Research Engineer

Lucidic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucidic AI is seeking a Founding Applied Research Engineer to design and deploy cutting-edge optimization algorithms for enterprise AI agents. You will work directly with customers to understand their agent systems and build solutions that measurably improve accuracy, reliability, and performance.

Join a fast-growing startup where you will define the technical roadmap, publish insights, and collaborate with product teams to translate research into scalable features that power Lucidic's

Qualifications

• Experience building and deploying ML systems in production.
• Strong background in ML, reinforcement learning, or optimization.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with customers.
• Self-motivated, able to thrive in an early-stage startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement optimization algorithms for agent systems.
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand architectures and pain points.
• Build evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to measure improvements.
• Collaborate with product to translate research into scalable features.
• Publish technical posts and contribute to the AI community.
• Help define the technical roadmap for Lucidic's optimization platform.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Optimization

Production ML

Python

PyTorch

JAX

Customer communication

Startup experience

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Join Lucidic AI as a Founding Applied Research Engineer to develop and deploy cutting-edge optimization algorithms for enterprise AI agents. You will work directly with customers to understand their agent systems and build solutions that measurably improve accuracy, reliability, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement optimization algorithms (RL, genetic algorithms, search-based methods) for agent systems
• Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their agent architectures and pain points
• Build evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to measure agent performance improvements
• Collaborate with the product team to translate research insights into scalable product features
• Publish technical blog posts and contribute to the broader AI community
• Help define the technical roadmap for Lucidic's optimization platform

Qualifications

• Strong background in machine learning, reinforcement learning, or optimization
• Experience building and deploying ML systems in production
• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work directly with customers
• Self-motivated with ability to thrive in an early-stage startup environment