Research Scientist

EdgeRunner AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision for employees

Remote-first culture

401K program

Unlimited PTO

IT stipend

Job summary

EdgeRunner AI, Inc. seeks researchers to train models, evaluate AI systems, and deploy world-class edge AI technologies for the warfighter. Candidates will explore reinforcement learning, large-scale ablations, pretraining, vision and multimodal training, and robotic integration of LLMs.

Active TS/SCI clearance is highly preferred; U.S. citizenship is required for security access. A PhD in a relevant field is preferred, with strong independence and initiative in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• Eligible to receive TS/SCI clearance; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Train models and evaluate AI systems and harnesses.
• Bring world-class AI to the warfighter in collaboration with EdgeRunner Research.
• Lead experiments in reinforcement learning, data ablations, pretraining, and multimodal training.
• Oversee robotic integration of LLMs and end-user model adaptation.
• Interact with customers and drive independent project ownership.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Large-scale data ablations

Pretraining and midtraining

Vision model training

Multimodal modeling

Machine translation

Benchmark development

Robotic integration of LLMs

End-user model adaptation

Education

PhD in a relevant field

Job description

About Us

Our mission is to bring state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to the tactical edge, enabling the American warfighter to make better decisions faster, to synthesize and understand diverse streams of data, and to work directly with robotic platforms using natural language. We’re researchers, and we perform the full stack of model training, conducting thousands of experiments in order to improve our models. We’re also machine learning engineers, and we bring productized AI directly to the end user.

By placing AI models at the tactical edge, the warfighter is empowered with the world’s best AI, even in the most harsh and extreme conditions. Moreover, interactions with the EdgeRunner system are secure by nature, because the data never needs to leave the device. Whether it’s on a laptop, a TAK device, a robotic platform, or in a field-forward location, we achieve frontier-level task performance by specializing each model for the warfighter’s MOS/AFSC and platform-specific needs and by performing aggressive and proprietary quantization, distillation, and compression.

Our passion is to build nothing short of the world’s best AI for the edge.

About the Role

In this role, you will join the EdgeRunner Research organization to train models, evaluate AI systems and harnesses, and bring world-class AI to the warfighter.

Strong candidates will have experience performing experimentation in one or more of the following areas:

• Reinforcement learning;
• Large-scale data ablations;
• Pretraining and midtraining;
• Vision model training and multimodal training;
• Machine translation and multilingual modeling;
• Benchmark development;
• Robotic integration of LLMs; or
• Blind model adaptation by end users.

Candidates must be eligible to receive a TS/SCI clearance, and strong candidates will have an active clearance. Under federal law, U.S. citizenship is required to obtain a security clearance.

A PhD in a relevant field is preferred, but we will also consider relevant research experience from time in industry, military, or government.

EdgeRunner AI is a Series-A startup, and we move quickly. Preference will be given to candidates who have a track record of taking the initiative, who can understand how business objectives translate into technical solutions, who can interact with customers, and who are comfortable with ambiguity. Though we work as a team, every researcher is a self-starter, a project owner, and can operate independently when needed.

We offer competitive salary, equity, and benefits, with individual pay determined by experience, relevant education, and/or training. Benefits include:

• 100% covered health, dental, and vision for employees; 50% for dependants
• 100% remote first culture; you can work from anywhere in the US full-time
• 401K program
• Unlimited PTO
• IT stipend for purchasing new equipment

EdgeRunner AI is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Even if you don’t perfectly match our job description and requirements, please still apply if you are passionate about our mission and this technology.