Lead AI Research Scientist, Workato
$357k
+ variable + Equity
5 days a week in office
Integration & workflow automation platform
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Integration & workflow automation platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$357k
+ variable + Equity
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses streamline their operations by providing a platform to automate their work and integrate their stacks, all in one place.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise alongside a strong record of execution
- MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
- 5+ years leading applied research teams
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch or JAX and modern LLM frameworks
- Proven track record of transitioning research into production within large-scale systems
- Strong publication record in top-tier ML venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR)
- Hands-on experience with large-scale model training, transformer architectures, reinforcement learning techniques, and CUDA
- Deep expertise across structured and unstructured enterprise data modalities
- This role is onsite in our SF Office
- Clear communicator able to translate complex research into business value
- Ability to explain complex ideas to non-experts
- Inspirational leader who attracts, mentors, and retains top talent
- Comfortable making decisions in a fast-moving, on-site lab environment
- Collaborative mindset; thrives at the intersection of research and product
- Experience operating in high-growth startup environments
What the job involves
- Workato’s AI Research Lab is seeking an exceptional Lead AI Research Scientist to join our growing team and define the next generation of enterprise AI systems
- This is a research-first role focused on redefining and advancing enterprise AI, with an emphasis on real-world impact for developers
- In this role, you will set and execute a 24-month research vision spanning deterministic planners, self-healing automations, retrieval-augmented workflow graphs, and agent evaluation frameworks, while ensuring these innovations translate into real-world impact
- You will build, lead, and mentor a team of applied researchers and interns, fostering a culture of technical excellence, strong authorship, and open scientific contribution
- This role will define and drive forward-looking research initiatives while bridging the gap between cutting-edge innovation and production-ready enterprise solutions
- You will partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to productionize prototypes within six months of proof of concept and engage directly with lighthouse customers to validate ideas and convert insights into scalable reference architectures
- Defining a 24-month research roadmap focused on automated agent building and optimization. goal based agent deign, synthetic data, automated postraining and RL, eval techniques, model optimizaiton
- Hiring, coaching, and inspiring a team of 10+ applied researchers and interns; fostering a publication-quality bar and culture of open science
- Publish peer-reviewed papers and secure patents that differentiate Workato in enterprise AI
- Partner with Product and Engineering to productionize prototypes within six months of proof of concept
- Engage lighthouse customers to validate research and convert learnings into reference architectures
Our take
Many businesses struggle with lack of team integration. There are a plethora of handy apps available, and various teams within businesses often use different processes, tools, and software. This has led to many businesses attempting to patch together technologies and create ad-hoc solutions that fail when they need to be scaled. Workato allows businesses to integrate data and apps so that teams can collaborate and communicate securely.
Workato has built a single platform that integrates apps, processes, data, and user experiences to improve efficiency, communication, and business flexibility. There are many integration platforms available, such as SnapLogic and Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, however, Workato has aimed its platform at users who have minimal technical experience, rather than the IT team.
Workato has continued to expand its partnerships and workforce, and is well set to see further growth as it innovates its product offerings and capabilities. The company was recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, making five years it has participated and five years it has been recognized.
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Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Sep 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $415m
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Arrangements: We maintain a hybrid remote work model and provide everyone with best of breed technology tools that enable them to work anywhere, anytime.
- Great Employee Benefits: Such as an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Health Insurance, Referral Bonuses, and Workato Stock Options, tailored to the countries that our employees are based in.
- Professional Development Opportunities: We support individual career ambitions, and set aside training programs and budgets they can tap on to upgrade both soft and hard skills.
- Dedicated Wellness: We make it a point to dedicate time to pause, recharge and get to know each other better.
- Recreation Time: From virtual game nights to fitness sessions, there's always time for a little fun on the calendars.
Company HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Vijay Tella
(Co-Founder & CEO)Spent 15 years as an Engineer at Teknekron and TIBCO, before joining Oracle as CSO. They also served as CEO at Qik, and VP at Skype.
Harish Shetty
(Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor)Previously held leadership roles in engineering at TIBCO, Blink, and iProfile.
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