Remote AI Research Engineer - Production-Ready Solutions

Syntas; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MacBook Pro with GPU access

External display

Compute credits for experiments

401(k) with company match

12 weeks paid parental leave

Home office setup stipend

Conference attendance and speaking

Job summary

Syntas in the United States is seeking an AI Research Engineer to explore frontier AI while delivering practical, production-ready systems that solve real business problems. You will evaluate emerging models, architect advanced retrieval and multi-agent systems, and lead deployment, benchmarking, and documentation to inform client-ready solutions.

Remote (US) full-time with a salary range of $150,000 to $210,000.

Qualifications

• Strong machine learning fundamentals and shipping AI systems.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation and embeddings.
• Ability to evaluate models for latency, cost, and fit.
• Ability to run rigorous experiments and document findings.
• Comfort bridging research exploration and production contexts.
• Self-directed in choosing techniques to invest in.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate emerging models for capability, cost, latency, and client fit.
• Lead self-hosted deployment including fine-tuning and infra setup.
• Design and benchmark retrieval architectures beyond standard RAG.
• Prototype multi-agent coordination systems and analyze tradeoffs.
• Build proof-of-concept systems informing technical strategy.
• Track AI research landscape and brief stakeholders on production readiness.

Skills

Strong ML fundamentals

Open-source model families

Retrieval-augmented generation

Experimentation and evaluation

Research-to-production bridge

Self-direction

Tools

Vector databases

Embedding strategies

Orchestration frameworks

Evaluation harnesses

AI observability tooling

GPU/edge deployment

Job description

Syntas in the United States is seeking an AI Research Engineer to explore frontier AI while delivering practical, production-ready systems that solve real business problems. You will evaluate emerging models, architect advanced retrieval and multi-agent systems, and lead deployment, benchmarking, and documentation to inform client-ready solutions.

Remote (US) full-time with a salary range of $150,000 to $210,000.