Research Scientist

FutureSearch; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Equity compensation

Healthcare benefits

Flexible hours

Travel to meet teams

Job summary

FutureSearch is a seed-stage startup focused on AI forecasting, research, and epistemics. We are a small, elite team of engineers and researchers at the frontier of our subfield. We work rapidly, with pragmatic judgment and strong product alignment, while staying deeply curious about the future of AI.

Remote first with flexible hours and equity, we prioritize collaboration across time zones and travel to meet the team when possible. This role is fully remote and highly impactful.

Qualifications

• Strong background in math, physics, CS, or a quantitative field.
• Currently studying modern AI systems and curious about the future of AI.
• Able to tackle ambiguous open problems and make progress quickly.
• Proficient in coding agents to run experiments and productionize results.

Responsibilities

• Conduct breakthrough AI forecasting and epistemics research.
• Develop benchmarks, datasets, and tasks to evaluate AI systems.
• Align research outcomes with product and customer deliverables.
• Communicate progress and findings within the team.

Skills

Coding agents

LLM agents

Epistemics research

Education

Quantitative background (math/physics/CS)

Job description

Research Scientists at FutureSearch are responsible for doing breakthrough research on the frontier of AI forecasting, research, and epistemics.

We are a small, elite team of engineers and researchers at the frontier of our subfield of AI. Please see our website for our public track record, our papers, our benchmarks and datasets, our current research on the future of AI, and a description of the members of our team.

Research Scientists at FutureSearch are exceptional as researchers, and they also excel at doing research at a startup. We work extremely quickly, exercise excellent judgment in what is ultimately valuable, and are pragmatic. We anticipate how their research will connect to the product and customer deliverables. We communicate continuously as a team.

Requirements

• - A background in math, physics, CS, or an equivalent quantitative field
• - Currently studying modern AI systems, and deeply curious about the future of AI
• - Comfortable taking ambiguous open problems and making concrete progress on them quickly
• - Strong proficiency with coding agents to handle the mechanics of running experiments and productionizing results

The strongest candidates have experience

• - Researching LLM agents
• - Studying epistemics: search, forecasting, judgment, establishing truth of claims
• - Creating benchmarks, datasets, and/or tasks to evaluate AI systems

Benefits

• FutureSearch is fully remote. We concentrate in London, with SF and Berlin as our next most traveled work locations. We prioritize traveling to meet at minimum 6 times per year, usually in or near London.
• As a remote company, we have flexible hours, with required synchronous attendance for critical US - Europe overlap hours (~7-10am PDT).
• We are a seed stage startup, and we offer higher-than-average equity for startups of our stage.
• We offer full benefits, depending on the country, including healthcare, paternity/maternity leave, equipment, and travel expenses.
• Salary range is $125k - $225k for US roles, and adjusted for the local labor market outside the US.