AI Research Scientist

Locked In AI is the #1 real-time AI interview and meeting copilot, trusted by over 1 million users worldwide. We are building the most advanced AI-powered career preparation platform that helps users perform better in interviews, assessments, and professional communication.

Our platform delivers real-time AI assistance during live interviews, coding rounds, and meetings, enabling users to communicate with clarity, confidence, and precision.

We are hiring a curiosity-driven AI Research Scientist to push the boundaries of applied artificial intelligence. This role combines deep research with real-world product impact. You will design new algorithms, develop novel AI architectures, and run rigorous experiments that directly improve our real-time AI copilot used by over 1 million users.

You will work at the frontier of NLP, dialogue systems, speech intelligence, and generative AI, ensuring research directly translates into production systems.

• Conduct advanced research in NLP, LLMs, dialogue systems, and generative AI
• Develop new architectures, training methods, and inference techniques
• Formulate research problems based on real-world interview AI challenges
• Publish research in top-tier AI conferences where applicable

• Design rigorous experiments with strong statistical validation
• Conduct ablation studies, model analysis, and performance diagnostics
• Build evaluation frameworks for real-time conversational AI systems
• Ensure reproducibility and scientific rigor in all research work

• Translate research ideas into production-ready systems
• Optimize models for latency, efficiency, and scalability
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy research innovations
• Design research with real-world constraints in mind

• Improve multi-turn dialogue understanding and context retention
• Work on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improvements
• Research personalization and adaptive AI response systems
• Explore speech, audio, and multimodal AI advancements

• Mentor junior engineers and researchers
• Present findings to leadership and cross-functional teams
• Contribute to AI roadmap and research strategy
• Collaborate with external research communities

• 3+ years of AI/ML research experience
• Strong record of research publications or applied research impact
• Experience translating research into production systems
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering teams
• Startup or fast-paced environment experience preferred

• PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, Machine Learning, or related field preferred
• Master’s with strong research track record also considered

• Deep expertise in Transformers, LLMs, and generative AI
• Strong Python and PyTorch/JAX/Tensor Flow skills
• Experience with NLP, RLHF, RAG, and model evaluation techniques
• Strong mathematical foundation in probability, statistics, and optimization
• Experience with distributed training and experiment tracking tools

• Research in real-time AI or conversational systems
• Experience with speech AI or multimodal learning
• Work on model efficiency (distillation, quantization, compression)
• RLHF, DPO, or alignment research experience
• Contributions to open-source AI projects
• Startup or early-stage product experience

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Remote-first flexibility
• High-impact AI research environment
• Opportunity to ship research into production at scale
• Fast-paced startup culture with real-world AI applications