Senior / Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Agents
Scale AI · San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY · San Francisco, CA
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At a glance
Highlights
- Study data types essential for state-of-the-art browser and SWE agents.
- Research agent environments and RL reward signals for autonomous agents.
- Benchmark autonomous agents across real-world scenarios and environments.
What they offer
- base salary
- equity
- benefits
Ideal candidate
Creative ML researcher with 3+ years solving complex problems who thrives turning papers into prototypes and collaborating cross-functionally to advance adaptable, real-world AI agents.
Requirements
- Practical experience working with LLMs, with proficiency in frameworks like PyTorch, Jax, or TensorFlow
- Adept at interpreting research literature and quickly turning new ideas into prototypes
- Track record of published research in top ML venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLM)
- At least three years of experience addressing sophisticated ML problems in research or product development
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to operate cross-functionally
- Hands-on experience with open source or bespoke LLM fine-tuning using PyTorch/Jax
- Hands-on experience and publications building applications and evaluations for AI agents such as tool-use, text2SQL, browser, coding and GUI agents
- Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as OpenHands, Swarm, LangGraph
- Familiarity with agentic reasoning methods such as STaR and PLANSEARCH
- Experience with cloud stack (e.g. AWS or GCP) and developing ML models in a cloud environment
- hiring process
- Research interviews assess practical ML prototyping and debugging, research concepts and culture fit; no LeetCode-style questions.
Lab profile
About Scale AI
AI data foundry providing high-quality data for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating AI systems.
What they build
- Training, fine-tuning, and evaluation data for frontier models
- Multimodal and coding data for audio, image, video and world models
- Custom AI applications for enterprise and global public sector
Known for
- Leading data partner for frontier model developers
- Trusted across enterprise, defense and public sector
- Depth in multimodal, coding and physical AI
- End-to-end capability from strategy to delivery and evaluation
Key facts
- Founded in 2016
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Private company backed by Accel, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Nvidia and Meta