Research Scientist

Role Overview

As a Research Scientist at Simular, you will shape the future of agentic AI by pioneering new research directions and collaborating with world-class scientists and engineers.

What You Will Do

Design and execute experiments, develop new methodologies, and publish results at top-tier conferences.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You might be a fit if you have a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent research experience, and expertise in areas such as pre-training, post-training, or fine-tuning LLMs/VLMs.

Requirements

• 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 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