AI Research Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, May 26, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Bridging cutting-edge applied research and production engineering, the full-time remote AI Research Engineer will design and implement advanced machine learning systems to solve high-impact business problems, while staying current with the latest AI research and methodologies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, prototype, and evaluate applied AI solutions across various domains
  • Translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped ML formulations with clear success metrics
  • Build production-quality training and inference pipelines using modern ML frameworks
Required Qualifications
  • Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a closely related field; or equivalent applied experience
  • Six or more years of combined research and applied ML engineering experience
  • Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX
  • Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models at non-trivial scale
  • Experience taking ML models from research prototype to production with appropriate observability and safeguards

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