Senior Agentic AI Research Scientist – Multimodal Vision

Axon; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

401k with employer match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Medical, Dental, Vision

Wellness programs

Learning & Development

Snacks in the office

Job summary

Axon seeks a Senior AI Research Scientist to lead innovative work on agentic, multimodal video understanding. You will advance state-of-the-art methods, collaborating with product and engineering teams to ship responsible AI capabilities for Axon’s enterprise and safety products.

You will own end-to-end research from concept to deployment, contribute to publications, and mentor junior scientists while working in a hybrid Seattle environment.

Qualifications

• PhD and 3+ years of experience in multimodal ML or related fields.
• Proven track record in applied research with production impact.
• Experience owning ML development lifecycle from problem definition to deployment.
• Experience building large-scale ML and multimodal systems including embeddings, vector search, and grounding LLMs.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists, engineers and PMs to build proof-of-concepts.
• Lead end-to-end research in AI-assisted universal search and multimodal reasoning.
• Advance CV, ML and gen-AI techniques for cloud and devices.
• Design privacy-preserving, scalable models for visual data analysis.
• Develop metrics and validate effectiveness in real-world settings.
• Stay updated with agentic AI advances and translate findings into Axon products.
• Contribute to publications and technical disclosures.
• Coach and mentor junior scientists.

Skills

Multimodal ML

Video understanding

Agentic reasoning

RAG architectures

Python

PyTorch or TensorFlow

Communication

Independent work

Education

PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Axon seeks a Senior AI Research Scientist to lead innovative work on agentic, multimodal video understanding. You will advance state-of-the-art methods, collaborating with product and engineering teams to ship responsible AI capabilities for Axon’s enterprise and safety products.

You will own end-to-end research from concept to deployment, contribute to publications, and mentor junior scientists while working in a hybrid Seattle environment.