Research Scientist, Stitch

Research Scientist, Stitch

Driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience leading a research agenda.
• Experience with modern ML frameworks such as JAX or PyTorch.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: agentic AI (planning, tool use, memory), reinforcement learning (RLHF, RLVF, RLGF, offline RL).
• One or more scientific publication submissions for conferences, journals, or public repositories (such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of coding experience.
• 1 year of experience leading research efforts and influencing other researchers.
• Experience designing and implementing novel evaluation benchmarks for LLMs, generative code models or agentic systems.
• Experience with program analysis, program synthesis, automated program repair, formal methods, or designing developer tools.
• Experience building, training, and fine-tuning large language models.

As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

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