Research Scientist

• Own the design, development, and production deployment of large-scale search and information retrieval systems
• Work across retrieval architectures, indexing pipelines, ranking and re-ranking systems, semantic retrieval, hybrid search, and retrieval optimization
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines that analyze, enrich, and prepare documents for retrieval
• Develop ranking and re-ranking systems using both traditional IR techniques and modern LLM-based approaches
• Improve retrieval quality through semantic retrieval, hybrid retrieval, query understanding, and relevance optimization
• Design evaluation frameworks for retrieval performance, relevance, ranking quality, and end-user outcomes
• Lead technical decisions around indexing strategies, retrieval architectures, ranking models, and search infrastructure
• Partner with engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and performant search services
• Contribute to the development of self-service search platform capabilities used by internal product teams
• Provide technical input to senior leadership on search, retrieval, and AI strategy
• Mentor applied scientists and machine learning practitioners across the organization

Lead Applied Scientist, Search & Information Retrieval

• Define research strategy and lead high-impact initiatives
• Shape Thomson Reuters' AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features
• Drive innovation in specialized domains such as legal reasoning, document understanding, or knowledge graphs
• Establish best practices and technical vision
• Provide thought leadership internally and externally
• Mentor scientists across Labs and lead stakeholder engagement
• Develop a deep understanding of customer problems and data that informs them

Lead Applied Scientist

• Defines and drives enterprise artificial intelligence and machine learning strategy aligned with organizational priorities
• Leads the design, validation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions
• Architects scalable end-to-end production systems, including model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• Translates complex business challenges into scalable artificial intelligence solutions with measurable outcomes
• Establishes technical standards, reusable patterns, and best practices for enterprise artificial intelligence development and governance
• Partners with business and technology leaders to influence capability roadmaps and deliver sustainable business value
• Mentors data scientists, machine learning engineers, researchers, and technical leaders

Principal Applied Scientist

• Conduct groundbreaking research in generative audio using diffusion or flow matching models, with a focus on one or more of the following areas:
• Vocal Synthesis — Research in vocal and speech synthesis, along with related areas such as ML-based audio processing and signal processing.
• Post-Training — Research in post-training techniques for music generation, including preference alignment methods (such as DPO, RLHF, or KTO), reward model design and training, and reinforcement learning to improve output quality, controllability, and human preference adherence.
• Editing — Research in iterative music generation and audio editing, including capabilities such as stem replacement, instrumentation change, mood changes (while preserving content), tempo changes, and structure changes.
• Run large-scale experiments with access to Spotify's extensive infrastructure and an audience of more than 700 million monthly active users.
• Create practical applications that harness generative technologies and push the boundaries of what's possible in listening experiences.
• Collaborate as part of a cross-functional team—working closely with scientists, engineers, product managers, designers, user researchers, and analysts—to craft innovative solutions to complex challenges.
• Have a direct impact on Spotify's products, tools, and services, working on projects that influence the entire organization.
• Engage with the broader research community by publishing your findings, delivering talks, and attending top conferences.

Research Scientist – Generative Audio

• Support founder's work identifying and evaluating opportunities to build new brands
• Dig into markets, categories, and cultural trends
• Translate research into compelling decks and analysis for emerging brands and VC partners
• Spot white space in a category and size up market opportunities
• Pull together well-argued analysis that shapes business decisions

Part-time Research Assistant

• Set technical direction for core replenishment R&D — define the modeling roadmap across demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and decision-making policy, and align it with product and business strategy.
• Model complex problems such as inventory decay, promotions, price elasticity, and inventory uncertainty, and implement solutions to multi-stage and multi-echelon inventory optimization problems.
• Drive fundamental changes to our core system from research through production, writing rigorously tested and scalable code.
• Lead research and development for new product and business challenges.
• Raise the technical bar across the Intelligence team: mentor scientists and engineers, set standards for experimental rigor, and review designs and results.
• Push the boundaries of AI capabilities in both products and scientist workflows.

Staff Applied Scientist – Distribution Center

• Drive customer adoption of new propellants for Solstice Advanced Materials in inhaled applications for short- and long-term growth globally.
• Lead the development of proof-of-concept metered dose inhaler (MDI) formulations including Solstice® Air propellant and technical evaluation of same by industry standard testing.
• Lead a research program to develop and defend our intellectual property used to protect Solstice Advanced Materials’ investments in this application.
• Work with customers, industry partners, third-party labs, trade organizations and regulators worldwide to enable the adoption of our new products.
• Identify growth opportunities in medical aerosol applications and initiate NPD projects for business growth by working closely with the commercial team through stage-gate process.
• Regular communication with the global project team will also be required.
• Must have a willingness to travel (15%) to accomplish these responsibilities.

Senior Advanced R&D Engineer/Scientist – Inhalation

• Partner with our pharma clients to design, develop and execute computational research projects leveraging the Tempus platform to advance precision medicine research programs
• Analyze and integrate large diverse clinical and molecular datasets to extract insights and drive new research opportunities
• Stay ahead of research and industry trends in oncology drug development, and identify specific areas where the Tempus platform can establish new markets
• Become an expert in our biopharma partners’ strategy, pipeline and portfolio to proactively determine all areas that the Tempus platform could add value to the drug development process of our partners
• Develop and drive global account strategy in coordination with the account team
• Document, summarize and communicate highly technical results and methods clearly to non-technical audiences
• Work directly with clients to co-architect solutions and projects that leverage the Tempus platform to solve customers' challenges and maintain R&D relationships as the trusted technical advisor
• Author whitepapers and illustrate the value of multimodal analysis and AI in drug discovery in coordination with our Research, Engineering & Data Science teams
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to streamline workflow of computational analyze
• Contribute to the development of the portfolio by providing feedback to leadership regarding client responses and suggestions; maintain a solution-oriented mindset
• Track progress against defined strategic objectives and goals; review progress/setbacks frequently wi broader Account Team and Tempus leadership
• Travel approximately 25% of working time, domestically and internationally

Senior Scientist I, Translational Research

• Partner with our pharma clients to design, develop and execute computational research projects leveraging the Tempus platform to advance precision medicine research programs
• Analyze and integrate large diverse clinical and molecular datasets to extract insights and drive new research opportunities
• Stay ahead of research and industry trends in oncology drug development, and identify specific areas where the Tempus platform can establish new markets
• Become an expert in our biopharma partners’ strategy, pipeline and portfolio to proactively determine all areas that the Tempus platform could add value to the drug development process of our partners
• Develop and drive global account strategy in coordination with the account team
• Document, summarize and communicate highly technical results and methods clearly to non-technical audiences
• Work directly with clients to co-architect solutions and projects that leverage the Tempus platform to solve customers' challenges and maintain R&D relationships as the trusted technical advisor
• Author whitepapers and illustrate the value of multimodal analysis and AI in drug discovery in coordination with our Research, Engineering & Data Science teams
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to streamline workflow of computational analyze
• Contribute to the development of the portfolio by providing feedback to leadership regarding client responses and suggestions; maintain a solution-oriented mindset
• Track progress against defined strategic objectives and goals; review progress/setbacks frequently with broader Account Team and Tempus leadership
• Travel approximately 25% of working time, domestically and internationally

Scientist II, Translational Research

• You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on livelihoods.
• You’ll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, honing in on those that matter most.
• You’ll also communicate externally about your work and advise other researchers on the team.
• You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell livelihoods team faces.
• Your work will combine empirical evidence review and critical synthesis, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, and your own judgment.

Senior Livelihoods Researcher

• You will be joining a small grantmaking team to contribute to our ambitious research agenda on nutrition. You'll sift through the countless questions we could try to answer, and hone in on those that matter most.
• You'll also communicate externally about your work and mentor and advise other researchers on the team.
• You will shape a research agenda that brings rigor and creativity to the thorniest questions the GiveWell nutrition team faces. Your work will combine empirical evidence review and critical synthesis, cost-effectiveness modeling, discussions with subject matter experts, understanding of the broader context, and your own judgment.
• Tackle thorny research questions in our existing portfolios. For example: how should we calibrate our cost-effectiveness estimates to real-world program performance?
• Design and oversee learning grants. You'll help design impact evaluations for new and existing programs, and supervise researchers executing that work — from scoping the research question through to interpreting results and integrating them into our models.
• Build our evidence base in new programmatic areas. This includes synthesising existing research, commissioning new research, and in some cases funding primary data collection — with the goal of determining whether a new intervention meets GiveWell's cost-effectiveness bar and is ready for major grantmaking.
• Provide research support to grantmakers. You'll ensure our cost-effectiveness models reflect our best current understanding of the programs we fund, by stress-testing assumptions, incorporating new data, and flagging where uncertainty is high enough to warrant further investigation.

Senior Nutrition Researcher

• Plan and run discovery research across several user groups, from agency staff to external users.
• Conduct field research, contextual inquiry, and observational sessions, not surveys alone.
• Support service blueprints and process maps that trace work across actors, systems, and handoffs.
• Synthesize findings into research reports, personas, and requirements that hold up to scrutiny.
• Validate findings with participants before delivery.

Senior UX Researcher – Short-Term Contract, 1099

• Own CDI's impact and efficacy research portfolio, including pre-post evaluations, quasi-experimental studies, and randomized controlled trials conducted in partnership with university collaborators.
• Lead all phases of evaluation work: research design, measurement development, data collection planning, analysis, interpretation, and reporting.
• Develop, revise, test, and validate assessment measures, including self-report surveys, behavioral indicators, and emerging measurement approaches.
• Build and maintain reproducible analytical workflows and documentation standards that support rigorous, auditable research.
• Through various written and oral formats, communicate research findings to diverse external audiences, including university partners, funders, academic and practitioner communities, and the general public.
• Represent CDI's research with accuracy, clarity, and appropriate nuance, in a manner consistent with CDI's values and nonpartisan commitments.
• Contribute to CDI's external credibility and thought leadership in the fields of evaluation, dialogue education, and bridge-building.
• Collaborate with Growth, Education, and Product teams to translate findings into program improvements and partner-facing materials.
• Partner with the Senior Data Scientist to ensure measurement and data collection workflows are well-integrated into reporting infrastructure and stakeholder-facing outputs.
• Collaborate with the Senior Research Associate on qualitative data collection, coding, and synthesis, and on the operational systems that support study execution.
• Build evaluation fluency across the team by helping colleagues develop shared language around measurement concepts, study findings, and their implications.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Education, and Growth teams to align evaluation priorities with organizational needs.

Senior Impact Researcher

• Rigorously think through important open scientific questions that don’t have textbook answers.
• Design and build safety evaluations to understand AI capabilities at the frontier of biology.
• Collaborate closely with scientists across Biohub to build safeguards that are robust to potential misuse, enabling our AI systems to be used for maximum societal benefit.
• Gain direct access to a network of leading external experts and Biohub partners for collaboration and to inform your safety work.
• Monitor capability advancements and emerging technologies across AI and assess how these advances impact the robustness of our safeguards.
• Partner closely with colleagues to develop, implement, and evolve our frontier safety policy.
• Communicate our safety work to internal teams as well as external partners.

Staff Research Scientist, AI Safety

• Design and train foundation models at scale to answer challenging research questions in large-molecule drug discovery and protein engineering
• Leverage massive structural biology and biophysical datasets, building novel architectures that capture complex geometric and physical priors
• Contribute to publications and present scientific findings at internal and external venues
• Solve real, pressing problems in drug discovery that enable new portfolio capabilities

Machine Learning Research Scientist/Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist, Structure and Simulation – AI for Drug Discovery

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research, including market analysis, competitive benchmarking, and internal data evaluation to support business strategies
• Gather, organize, and analyze data from multiple sources, synthesizing findings into clear, actionable insights
• Assist in planning and coordinating research initiatives, including timelines, deliverables, and stakeholder collaboration
• Prepare reports, presentations, and summaries that communicate key insights and support strategic decision-making
• Maintain accurate and organized research documentation, including data sources, methodologies, and outputs
• Track progress of ongoing research efforts and ensure alignment with defined objectives and timelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather inputs, validate findings, and ensure research reflects organizational priorities
• Support the development and implementation of research methodologies, frameworks, and best practices
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through data analysis and proactively communicate findings
• Support strategic and operational projects as needed

Research Assistant

• Responsible for leadership in assessing scientific research contributing to the transformation of health outcomes research
• Focus on design, development, evaluation, and deployment of advanced machine learning systems
• Publish findings and conclusions in recognized scientific publications
• Lead research project operations activities including project conceptualization, planning, leading project teams, and proposal defense presentations
• Ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables to research clients

Senior Research Scientist

• Set technical direction for core replenishment R&amp;D.
• Model complex problems such as inventory decay, promotions, price elasticity, and inventory uncertainty.
• Drive fundamental changes to our core system from research through production.
• Lead research and development for new product and business challenges.
• Mentor scientists and engineers, set standards for experimental rigor.

Staff Applied Scientist

• Lead, staff, and manage Cresilon’s Preclinical Research activities.
• Provide preclinical scientific input and leadership on the evaluation of physical safety and efficacy for technologies and products at all stages of the product life-cycle.
• Plan, direct, coordinate, and execute activities related to the design, initiation. and follow-up of studies to support approval of Class I-III medical devices.
• Develop, write, and/or review study protocols and reports. Act as a technical mentor for the development of study experimental designs, protocols, and reports of junior associates.
• Administrater and manage Cresilon's preclinical regulatory strategy and communication.
• Work with Contract Research Organizations (CROs) to execute both Biocompatibility / Safety and Efficacy/Functionality research, including negotiating, drafting, and managing research contracts and agreements with pre-clinical trial sites.
• Ensure that the company operates within the scope of regulatory compliance, including Quality System Regulations (ISO 13485), health and safety, environmental protection regulations, and the core values of Cresilon.
• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the preclinical research department growth strategy. Actively interact with the internal and external scientific community to maintain state-of-the-art knowledge.
• Oversee the development of and modifications to preclinical models to address project needs.
• Oversee the design and execution of preclinical functionality and safety in-vivo studies per project timelines.
• Surveys the literature to identify and compare competitive product performance and safety risks.
• Maintain current knowledge in existing regulations, requirements and standards, including but not limited to global regulatory requirements (ISO, FDA, etc) and compliance requirements (GLP, USDA, AAALAC, departmental SOP's, company policies, etc)
• Work cross-functionally with Regulatory and Quality to assess project risks, product safety, and efficacy on NPD projects, including ensuring external facilities meet Cresilon standards for animal use and generating contracts and CRO audits, if necessary.
• Manage budgetary requirements for all research projects to support efficacy and safety programs.
• Lead the effort to publish surgical research in peer-reviewed journals.
• Regularly interface with management to ensure research operations reflect overall corporate vision/strategy.
• Work with the VP of Technology and the Director of R&D to ensure long-term vision and goals are met to reflect the company’s charter.nd

Preclinical Principal Scientist, Research & Development

• Define and drive long-term technology roadmaps for topological qubits, including materials, device architectures, and integration strategies
• Lead development of topological quantum devices, with direct involvement in experiments, simulations, and prototype evaluation
• Work closely with device, integration, process, AME, PDK, and test teams to translate concepts into scalable semiconductor architectures
• Guide R&D of advanced materials, including III‑V heterostructures, epitaxy, superconductors, and topological material systems
• Contribute to experimental design, data analysis, and failure learning cycles for quantum devices
• Define system architectures linking qubits with cryogenic control and read-out electronics
• Drive modeling and validation strategies to improve coherence, performance, manufacturability, and scalability
• Translate device innovations into semiconductor-compatible integration approaches (BEOL, superconducting wiring, heterogeneous integration)
• Establish technical benchmarks, requirements, and success metrics aligned with internal and partner programs
• Serve as primary technical interface with customers and research partners to shape joint development efforts
• Lead and contribute to external collaborations, funded programs, and research proposals
• Communicate technical strategy, risks, and tradeoffs to leadership and multidisciplinary teams
• Mentor engineers and establish technical standards across topological quantum R&D

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