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.

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