Abundant

Research Scientist

Abundant

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San Francisco • California • United States

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About the role

  • We’re looking for researchers passionate about applying the latest models to SOTA problems. If you're excited about crafting the latest viral benchmark, new paradigms for scaffolding agents, self-improving agents, or RL, you should apply.

Requirements

  • Strong communication skills, with teammates and with customers.
  • Strong technical skills. Able to go deep, but also to simplify and prioritize.
  • Fast at getting work done and picking up new skills.
  • Curious about AI and technology; keeping up with the latest papers.
  • Impact-oriented. Hacker. Always works on the most important part.
  • Handle extremely ambiguity. Able to unblock yourself and others.
Benefits
  • You’ll get to work on the core of AI (models and data), serving top researchers in the field.
  • You will have direct interaction with customers, from operations to product to research.
  • You will be doing career-defining work, often in the latest trends in AI and agents.
  • You’ll get to work with experienced operators who care deeply about building a team and having a long-lasting impact.
  • The founding team has known each other for almost a decade, having worked together at startups and companies in the past. We know what good and bad companies look like.
  • We always start with empathy: empathy for the customer, empathy for our contributors, and empathy for each other.
  • You will future-proof your career, since:
  • In the long run, most jobs will be automated by digital agents or physical AI, whether it’s software engineering, data science, accounting, etc.
  • Even physical jobs will be taken as foundation models take on robotics.
  • Within two decades, the majority of jobs will be to generate training data for the next frontier. We aim to facilitate this new economy and be mindful of how we facilitate this progress.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AIreinforcement learningbenchmarkingself-improving agentsscaffolding agents
Soft Skills
communicationtechnical skillsprioritizationcuriosityimpact-orientedproblem-solvingadaptability