Research Scientist

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Do you want to push the boundaries of foundation models in tabular data?

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Foundation models transformed text and images. Structured data - the largest and most consequential data format in the world - stayed untouched, until now. What LLMs did for language, we're doing for tables.

In July 2026, less than 18 months after our €9M pre-seed, we joined SAP as an independent frontier AI lab - same team, mission, and open-weights models, now backed by more than €1 billion over four years.

We’re hiring researchers to advance foundation models for structured data, with particular interest in structured data, in-context learning, meta-learning, time series and forecasting, relational learning, causal inference, and recommender systems. We welcome deep expertise in any one of these areas, as well as broader foundation-model research experience.

You’ll develop models and learning methods that generalize across datasets and tasks. We’re especially interested in researchers who can bring insights from their field into the design, training, and evaluation of foundation models.

Structured data presents challenges that language and vision architectures don’t solve out of the box. Tables lack a shared vocabulary across datasets; time series introduce temporal dependencies; relational data connects information across tables and entities. TabPFN demonstrated what foundation models can achieve for tabular prediction, and many fundamental research questions remain.

At Prior Labs, Research Scientists drive the core model agenda. You’ll help identify worthwhile research questions, design experiments that distinguish between competing explanations, and take ownership of projects through to publications and model releases. You’ll implement and run your own experiments, interpret the results, and work closely with research engineers to turn promising ideas into reliable models.

The problems you could work on include:

Pushing the limits of dataset size and context length while improving training and inference efficiency.

Building multimodal models that combine tabular data with text and other modalities.

Designing architectures and learning methods for time series, forecasting, and anomaly detection.

Developing relational models that learn across multiple related tables.

Investigating how foundation models can support causal inference and estimation of intervention effects.

Extending foundation-model methods to…