Latamcent
Senior AI Researcher
Brazil, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
You will figure out what new models can do and turn that into agents customers use. You will set a research agenda, build benchmarks, and ship prototypes that shape the product.
What you will do
- Decide which new models, papers and techniques are worth betting on
- Build agents on frontier APIs that understand unfamiliar software and complete real business tasks
- Create the eval and benchmark system
- Turn agent failures into fixes by digging into where and why things break
- Ship frontier prototypes and demos
- Be the team's public voice on what you learn through blog posts, talks and short videos
Required qualifications
- 5+ years at startups owning technical outcomes
- Hands on work building multi step agents with frontier LLMs (tool use, orchestration)
- A track record of AI products or systems that reached real users
- Rigorous experiment design: baselines, eval sets, telling signal from noise
- Move work forward on your own and raise blockers early, without needing structure
- AI tools are part of your daily workflow
- Strong spoken and written English for presentations, travel and writing
- Open to an independent contractor setup paid in USD
Nice to have
- Time at a top AI lab, or experience training agents in real environments
- RL, post training or fine tuning experience
- Published research, benchmarks, open source work or technical writing
- An active voice in the AI community (posts, talks, GDE or similar)
Benefits
- Relocation support available
- Learning allowance
- Budget to try the latest AI models and tools
About the company
Post Series A B2B SaaS company of about 35 people building an enterprise AI agent that learns any web app on its own and takes action through its UI and API.