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Research Scientist

Simular · Palo Alto, California

Location
Palo Alto, California, United States
Employment
Full time
Level
Mid level
Posted
11 months ago

About this role

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What you’ll do

As a Research Scientist at Simular, you will:

  • Shape the future of agentic AI by pioneering new research directions in planning, reinforcement learning, multimodal reasoning, grounding, human-agent. interaction, and alignment (e.g. reward modeling, automated task evaluation, AI safety).

  • Design and execute experiments end-to-end: from data collection and benchmarking, to model training and evaluation.

  • Develop new methodologies that push the boundaries of AI agent capabilities and reliabilities, advancing both academic and product impacts, in collaboration with world-class scientists and engineers.

  • Collaborate closely with engineers to integrate research prototypes into product

  • Publish and present results at top-tier conferences, contributing to the broader AI research community.

  • Advance the science hands-on through designing methods, building datasets, running experiments, and benchmarking against state of the art.

You might be a fit if

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent research experience.

  • Experience owning the complete research lifestyle: leading and executing a research program from ideation all the way to publication.

  • Expertise in one or more of (but not limited to) the following areas:

    • Pre-training, post-training, or fine-tuning LLMs/VLMs

    • Reinforcement learning and/or LLM-based agents

    • Computer vision and multimodal learning

    • Representation learning and embeddings.

  • Consistent publication record as first author in leading conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, etc.).

  • Strong implementation skills in modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, etc.).

  • Demonstrated ability to run complex experiments, analyze results, and iterate quickly.

  • Passion for high-impact research with real-world applications.

  • Ambition and vision to redefine what’s possible in AI research and deployment.

  • As published by Simular. Applications are handled on their site.

    Skills this posting mentions

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    About Simular

    Simular is a research-driven AI company building autonomous computers to free human work and enhance life. Our first product is Sai, an always-on AI agent that uses computers just like humans do. Founded by former AI researchers at Google DeepMind, Simular develops computer-using agents (CUA) that operate across digital environments with human-level capabilities, backed by our benchmark-topping agentic framework. Simular is backed by investors including Felicis, NVentures (Nvidia), South Park Commons, and Lenny Rachitsky.

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    Paste your career in once. Every application after that is written for you.

    Drop a resume or a LinkedIn URL. I rank the live openings against it, rewrite the resume and write a cover letter for the best of them, and fill in the employer's form when you press the button. You read, you decide what goes out.

    1. 01Drop your resume

      A PDF or a LinkedIn URL. About a minute, once.

    2. 02I rank the openings

      Every weekday morning, the live catalog scored against your history. Up to 20 worth your time, not two hundred links.

    3. 03Each one is written up

      Resume rewritten for the posting, a cover letter, a fit score. Press send, or let me fill in the form.

    • New matches ranked and written before you are up.
    • Every bullet stays inside what your history supports. Nothing invented.
    • Queued, submitted, interviewing, offer: one screen, not a spreadsheet.

    500 free credits on sign-up. No card. Nothing is sent until you say so.

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