Senior AI Researcher & Data Innovation - Remote

Troveo AI; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-First Policy

Learning stipend

Mentorship from founders

Budget for equipment and software

Job summary

Troveo AI is seeking a Senior Researcher (Contract) to explore, validate, and surface opportunities in multimodal content and training data generation. You will work hands-on with new models, datasets, and techniques, translating findings into concise briefs and actionable experiments.

Collaborate with product, prototypers, and engineers to advance research programs, while shaping a strategic data opportunity roadmap. This role supports a remote‑first team across the United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in applied research or machine learning research.
• Strong tinkerer’s mindset: enjoys getting hands‑on with new models, APIs, datasets, tools, and techniques, and is comfortable learning by building and experimenting.
• Deep familiarity with modern paradigms including large language models, multimodal models, retrieval‑augmented generation, agent architectures, fine‑tuning, model distillation, and evaluation frameworks.
• Clear communication of research findings to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and synthesize trends across our industry, AI and machine learning research, foundation models, agents, evaluation techniques, and data enrichment methods.
• Tinker with emerging models, tools, datasets, and techniques to understand their practical potential. Build lightweight prototypes, run experiments, and explore unconventional combinations to turn interesting ideas into evidence.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities to enrich or restructure our existing assets (internal and external), including multimodal and audiovisual sources as well as approaches for generating high-quality training corpora that could improve model performance, product features, or decision‑making.
• Translate research into actionable outputs: opportunity briefs, experiment proposals, success criteria, and recommendations on what to explore next.
• Own and advance a research program around priority data opportunity areas, including designing and running experiments and proofs‑of‑concept to validate hypotheses and de‑risk ideas.
• Partner with product, prototypers, and engineers by providing well‑scoped ideas and serving as a research advisor.
• Maintain living knowledge bases and briefings that keep the broader team informed.
• Evaluate emerging techniques and papers for relevance in our context.
• Contribute the research perspective to prioritization and longer‑term opportunity discussions.
• Support business operations in ad hoc requests.

Skills

Tinkerer mindset

LLMs

Multimodal models

Retrieval-augmented generation

Agent architectures

Fine-tuning

Model distillation

Evaluation frameworks

Education

Master’s degree in Applied Sciences/Statistics or related field

Job description

Troveo AI is seeking a Senior Researcher (Contract) to explore, validate, and surface opportunities in multimodal content and training data generation. You will work hands-on with new models, datasets, and techniques, translating findings into concise briefs and actionable experiments.

Collaborate with product, prototypers, and engineers to advance research programs, while shaping a strategic data opportunity roadmap. This role supports a remote‑first team across the United States.