Adaption

Senior Research Scientist

United States, Remote. Posted 3 days ago

The role

This research role focuses on building models that continuously evolve with the world. You will innovate, collaborate across software, hardware, and algorithmic domains, and measure real-world impact.

What you will do

  • Innovate by moving fast and focusing on impact.
  • Collaborate across software, hardware, and algorithmic domains for system-wide efficiency.
  • Measure real-world impact through product thinking.

Required qualifications

  • A PhD or equivalent research experience in a computer science field
  • 4-5+ years of industry experience
  • Publishing record at ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, ICLR, EMNLP
  • Deep expertise in at least one area: model efficiency, real time alignment or algorithmic optimization
  • Systems thinking ability to understand and optimize across the full ML stack
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
  • Knowledge of model optimization techniques (RLHF, finetuning)
  • Experience in an industry lab with computing at scale

Benefits

  • Adaption Passport: An annual travel allowance to explore somewhere new
  • Weekly allowance for takeout or grocery delivery
  • High-quality medical coverage and benefits
  • Team offsites and visits to SF HQ

About the company

adaption builds efficient intelligence that evolves in real-time. The team is small, talent-dense, and focused on continual adaptation.