Linkup
Research Scientist
NYC (NY), San Francisco (CA) or Paris (FR) · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 258 days ago
PythonJavaNode.jsGitPostgreSQLElasticsearchKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsRESTMachine LearningNLPLLMsAgentic AIRoboticsResearch
About the role
- We're looking for a top‑tier Research Scientist to join our tech team.
- Prototype, train, and evaluate new models for factual search and multimodal understanding
- Master the technical scope of your domain and raise the bar for scientific and engineering rigor
Responsibilities
- Lead Research for Linkup
- Design and implement state-of-the-art retrieval and ranking systems for AI agents
- Build robust research pipelines, develop, deploy, and iterate on experiments end-to-end
- Collaborate on research roadmaps and drive key modeling and evaluation decisions
- Own large cross-functional initiatives from exploration to production
- Are excited to help build Google for AI agents- and believe in Linkup's mission https://www.notion.so/Join-Linkup-9a304f74df4544bf83d9b23c3b31b699?pvs=21
- Build and maintain an evaluations framework to measure the progress of our search engine
- Design a RL framework to integrate AI preferences into our ranking algorithm
- These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.
- To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context‑specific-not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut‑off.
Requirements
- Bring hands-on experience with LLMs, NLP, embeddings, or information retrieval systems
- The ideal candidate will play a central role in our team, partnering closely with the founders to spearhead groundbreaking products.
- Join us and leverage your expertise to push the boundaries of AI!
Nice to have
- PhD is preferred, MS. is a must. (5y of experience minimum)
Benefits
- Have strong experience in research in information retrieval, computer science or machine learning.
Company info
- Mission. We believe we play a critical role in building the agentic web. We are 100% committed to our mission of bringing the reality of the world to AI agents.
- Speed. We build fast, we build to last. We get things done, well.
- Ownership. We empower every team member to take ownership of their projects, ensuring they see them through to successful completion.
- Teamwork. Our strength lies in our unity. We rely on one another and embrace our diversity as a core asset.
- Humility. We maintain low egos, showing respect for others and continuously learning from their insights and experiences.
- Reality never stands still, and neither should intelligence.
- Linkup reconnects language models to a living stream of verified facts, ensuring AIs remain as current and insightful as the world they serve.
- Our mission is to deliver the world's freshest, most trusted knowledge to AIs.
- Our culture is built on the following values:
- We expect all team member to take an active role in shaping our company culture.
- We are small technical team, working shoulder to shoulder to build the web of agents.
- A bit more about our 3 co-founders:
- Philippe Mizrahi https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-mizrahi/- Led the development of Lyft's Autonomous Vehicles marketplace. Previously launched Amundsen https://www.amundsen.io/, an open source search engine.
- Denis Charrier https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-charrier/- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then Staff Engineer at Spotify. 15y of software development experience.
- Boris Toledano https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-toledano-7b53a496/- Led robotics at Carrefour, after 3y at McKinsey & Co working on public affairs and digital transformation.
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