Research Engineer/ Applied Scientist

The role

Research Engineers will design experiments and invent new approaches to turn cutting-edge AI research into production systems. The role involves improving NL-to-SQL generation, retrieval, ranking, and agentic reasoning for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Design and run rigorous experiments including ablations, benchmarking, and error analysis
• Advance multi-turn conversational understanding through context retention, entity resolution, and memory
• Build robust evaluation frameworks including automated benchmarks and LLM-as-a-judge methodologies
• Prototype, validate, and productionize ML techniques like fine-tuning and distillation
• Evaluate emerging foundation models and AI research
• Contribute to the broader AI community through technical reports or conference talks

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning, NLP, large language models, or AI research
• Proven track record of shipping production AI systems
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, or a related field
• Deep experience with modern LLMs and agent architectures
• Strong software engineering skills with production-quality Python
• Experience using modern AI frameworks
• Ability to design rigorous evaluation frameworks and benchmark models
• Ability to improve model cost/quality through experimentation

Nice to have

• PhD
• Publications at leading AI or NLP conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, NAACL, CVPR)
• Meaningful contributions to open-source AI projects
• Experience adapting foundation models and deploying production-scale LLM systems

Benefits

• Equity
• Benefits

About the company

WisdomAI builds AI-powered analytics that provide answers to people closest to the business. The company is trusted by companies like Cisco, Patreon, and Rubrik.