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Applied Scientist

San Francisco, CAFremont, CAPalo Alto, CABerkeley, CAAI ResearchHybrid3+ YOE
Summary

Applied Scientist drives research in efficient, adaptive ML including online learning and gradient-free methods, implements production ML systems, and shapes research/product roadmap. Requires 3-4 years ML experience deploying real-world systems.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Advance the Research Frontier: Drive original work on efficient, adaptive ML — including online learning, gradient-free methods, and novel architectures — and turn those advances into systems that run in production.
  • Deliver Real-World Impact: Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of ML systems end-to-end, from research prototype to production.
  • Shape the Roadmap: Contribute to research direction and product strategy, identifying which problems are worth solving and which methods are worth investing in.
  • Hands-on Execution: Own implementation of data products at Adaption, addressing novel challenges in data, interaction, and evaluation with both creativity and engineering rigor.

Qualifications

  • 3–4 years of industry experience in machine learning or applied research, with a track record of deploying ML systems that solved real business problems.
  • Strong software engineering skills and fluency with ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).
  • Hands-on experience with online learning, reinforcement learning, or efficient ML architectures.
  • Solid understanding of data modeling for training and how curation decisions shape model performance.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to align technical work with high-level goals.
  • A mindset of ownership, curiosity, and a bias toward action.

Bonus: experience training or fine-tuning models using human feedback, reward signals, or other adaptive learning techniques.

Skills
PyTorchJAXTensorFlowonline learningreinforcement learninggradient-free methodsdata modelinghuman feedbackreward signalsadaptive learning