Senior Agentic AI Researcher - End-to-End & Production

Articul8; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Articul8 is seeking a Senior Applied AI Researcher to tackle open research problems across a domain‑specific GenAI platform. You will own research projects from problem formulation through production deployment, spanning model training, RL, multimodal understanding, and knowledge representation with deep expertise in at least one area.

The role requires leading multi‑stage training pipelines, domain adaptation, and advanced evaluation, while coordinating cross‑functional teams to scale research

Qualifications

• Education: PhD or MSc in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years as an AI/ML researcher with shipped research artifacts (models, systems, or tools in production), including 2+ years building LLM‑based systems.
• Model training depth: multi‑stage training pipelines and diagnosing training failures from loss curves, gradient norms, and evaluation metrics.
• Technical specialization: deep expertise in at least one of domain‑specific model adaptation, multimodal learning, RLHF, knowledge‑grounded generation, or retrieval‑augmented systems.
• Distributed systems: hands‑on experience with distributed training at scale; data vs model parallelism knowledge.
• Software engineering: production‑grade Python, clean abstractions, tested code.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive end‑to‑end research programs across the GenAI platform, from problem formulation to deployment.
• Lead multi‑stage training pipelines, domain adaptation, RL‑based optimization, and analysis of training dynamics.
• Design and train multimodal systems and knowledge graphs, with scalable retrieval and reasoning.
• Architect data and training infrastructure for agent‑orchestrated pipelines used by the research team.
• Mentor researchers on agentic workflows and accelerate research throughput.
• Document findings and contribute to internal knowledge bases for reuse across teams.

Skills

Research experience

LLM‑based systems

Model training

Evaluation metrics

Publications

Python development

Education

PhD or MSc in CS/ML

Tools

DeepSpeed

Megatron‑LM

Distributed training

Kubernetes

GPU cluster management

Job description

Articul8 is seeking a Senior Applied AI Researcher to tackle open research problems across a domain‑specific GenAI platform. You will own research projects from problem formulation through production deployment, spanning model training, RL, multimodal understanding, and knowledge representation with deep expertise in at least one area.

The role requires leading multi‑stage training pipelines, domain adaptation, and advanced evaluation, while coordinating cross‑functional teams to scale research