Research Scientist

Simular

Palo Alto, California, United States
On-site
Agentic ai research
Planning and reinforcement learning
Multimodal reasoning and grounding
Simular is seeking a Research Scientist to advance AI research, focusing on areas such as reinforcement learning and human-agent interaction. The ideal candidate will hold a PhD or equivalent experience, have a strong publication record, and demonstrate proficiency in modern machine learning frameworks

Job Summary

  • Shape the future of agentic AI by pioneering new research directions in planning, reinforcement learning, multimodal reasoning, grounding, human-agent interaction, and alignment.
  • Design and execute experiments end-to-end: from data collection and benchmarking, to model training and evaluation.
  • Collaborate closely with engineers to integrate research prototypes into product and publish and present results at top-tier conferences.

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Simular is seeking a Research Scientist to advance AI research, focusing on areas such as reinforcement learning and human-agent interaction. The ideal candidate will hold a PhD or equivalent experience, have a strong publication record, and demonstrate proficiency in modern machine learning frameworks.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Agentic AI research
  • Planning and reinforcement learning
  • Multimodal reasoning and grounding
  • Human-agent interaction
  • AI safety and alignment
  • End-to-end experiment design
  • Publishing research in top-tier conferences

Nice-to-have

  • Pushing AI boundaries
  • Collaborating with world-class teams
  • Advancing academic and product impacts
  • Passion for high-impact research

Key Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
  • Experience owning complete research lifecycle
  • Expertise in LLMs/VLMs, RL, computer vision, representation learning
  • Consistent first-author publication record
  • Strong implementation skills in modern ML frameworks

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