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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
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