Founding Research Engineer, Applied AI

The role

You will advance applied AI and ML research to improve platform predictions and automate creator advertising decisions. The work involves evaluating methods, training models on proprietary data, and shipping approaches to production.

What you will do

• Own research problems from problem definition and experimentation through production.
• Evaluate relevant AI and ML methods against Agentio's data.
• Build rigorous experiments and evaluations and measure performance in production.
• Develop models, algorithms, training approaches, or datasets.
• Work with engineering and product to ship successful approaches.
• Help set Agentio's research agenda and technical standards for applied ML.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience conducting applied ML research through production ML systems, publications, open-source research, or comparable contributions.
• Depth in one or more areas such as foundation models, multimodal learning, recommendation and ranking, representation learning, reinforcement learning and decision-making, causal inference, optimizati
• Ability to turn ambiguous product problems into tractable research questions, run rigorous experiments, and translate successful approaches into production systems.
• Strong engineering skills and experience taking ML work beyond prototypes.
• Strong knowledge of current AI research and the judgment to determine which methods are useful in practice.

Nice to have

• A PhD or advanced degree in ML, AI, computer science, statistics, or a related field

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Comprehensive Health Coverage through Aetna
• Dental & Vision Plans through Guardian
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• $100 Monthly Lifestyle Credit
• Daily lunches and snacks in the office
• Dinner provided Monday - Thursday
• Fully subsidized gold tier access on Wellhub
• Gym in the building

About the company

Agentio builds AI-native infrastructure for creator advertising. Their platform uses AI to turn creative and performance signals into campaign strategies, match brands with creators, recommend sponsorship prices, and review videos against brand requirements.