Applied Scientist, Samaya

• PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field
• Strong background in deep learning, large language models, and NLP techniques
• A strong track record of first-author publications in top AI/NLP conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP)
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or Transformers, and strong coding skills

Desirable

• As an Applied Scientist (ML) at Samaya, you will collaborate closely with our product and engineering teams, and use cutting-edge ML research to transform how users interact with Samaya in their daily workflows
• You'll drive impact across the entire ML lifecycle: from problem formulation and system analysis to data collection, benchmark development, model training, and production deployment
• You’ll also have opportunities to publish your work and deliver impact to the ML community. Your expertise will advance our capabilities in these critical technical domains:
• Retrieval, ranking and RAG
• LLM post-training and reinforcement learning
• AI agents for knowledge workflows
• ML benchmarks
• Your work has the potential to transform the following key Samaya products and deliver impacts to tens of thousands of professional users:
• Instant QA: Our custom-built Question Answer system using state of the art in house models, seamlessly trained to work together to enable instant expert intelligence
• Agents: You will enable expert-level agentic workflows to automate comprehensive knowledge work and enable AI tools that work with experts to gain new insights
• Formulate an ML problem from product requirements
• Analyze existing ML systems for their limitations, and propose and validate novel methodologies to improve upon existing systems
• Create and productionize cutting-edge research prototypes for knowledge work at scale
• Build novel ML evaluation datasets that serve as crucial criteria for production feature rollouts
• [Optionally] Mentor ML interns and publish your research findings with the community