Staff Research Scientist - Human-Centric AI & Agents

Primitive Labs AI Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Vacation

Job summary

Primitive Labs is building AI systems that are human-aligned, hiring for potential and rewarding impactful research. The role sits in San Francisco or New York, full-time, with competitive salary and meaningful equity.

You will lead research directions, design experiments, and build simulations for behavioral intelligence agents. Expect to publish work, contribute to open-source projects, and help shape our research program through papers and talks.

Qualifications

• Led research in agents, ML, simulation, or cognitive science.
• Built the systems needed to test your ideas.
• Worked deeply with large models and agents.
• Turned research into production systems.
• Cares about human behavior, not just task completion.

Responsibilities

• Own research directions from question to production.
• Design experiments for agent behavior.
• Build simulations of real user decision-making.
• Develop behavioral-fidelity benchmarks.
• Train and evaluate agents against human data.
• Translate research findings into model, memory, and runtime improvements.
• Publish papers, technical write-ups, and open-source work.

Skills

Agents research

Machine learning

Simulation

Cognitive science

Production systems

Job description

Primitive Labs is building AI systems that are human-aligned, hiring for potential and rewarding impactful research. The role sits in San Francisco or New York, full-time, with competitive salary and meaningful equity.

You will lead research directions, design experiments, and build simulations for behavioral intelligence agents. Expect to publish work, contribute to open-source projects, and help shape our research program through papers and talks.