adaption

adaption

Senior Research Scientist

United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 52 days ago
AlgorithmsMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchResearchCollaboration

About the role

  • The most intelligent systems will increasingly be defined not just by what they know, but by how well they can interact with the world.
  • For the first time, researchers who care deeply about intelligence and efficiency must also be obsessed with the interface through which a model acts.
  • If any of this resonates, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

  • Cross-Stack Optimization: You collaborate across software, hardware, and algorithmic domains to unlock system-wide efficiency gains.
  • You collaborate across software, hardware, and algorithmic domains to unlock system-wide efficiency gains.
  • We're building intelligence that evolves alongside you, so we encourage you to keep expanding your horizons.

Requirements

  • A PhD or equivalent research experience in a computer science field
  • 4-5+ years of industry experience
  • Knowledge of model optimization techniques (RLHF, finetuning)
  • Experience in an industry lab with computing at scale
  • Innovation: You have ideas and you move fast.
  • Publishing record at ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, ICLR, EMNLP.
  • Deep expertis e in at least one area: model efficiency, real time alignment or algorithmic optimization
  • Systems thinking ability to understand and optimize across the full ML stack
  • Strong programming skills in Python. Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow)
  • Above all, we're looking for great teammates who make work feel lighter and aren't afraid to go out on a limb with bold ideas. You don't need to be perfect, but you do need to be adaptable. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't check every box.

Compensation

  • Adaption Passport: Annual travel stipend to explore a country you've never visited.

Benefits

  • Flexible work: In-person collaboration in the Bay Area, a distributed global-first team, and team offsites.
  • Adaption Passport: Annual travel stipend to explore a country you've never visited.
  • Lunch Stipend: Weekly meal allowance for take-out or grocery delivery.
  • Well-Being: Comprehensive medical benefits and generous paid time off.
  • Our frontier work centers on efficiency, gradient-free exploration, real-time learning, and interface design.

Company info

  • Most AI is frozen in place - it doesn't adapt to the world.
  • We think that's backwards.
  • Our mandate is to build efficient intelligence that evolves in real-time.
  • Our vision is AI systems that are flexible, personalized, and accessible to everyone.
  • We believe efficiency is what makes this possible - it's how we expand access and ensure innovation benefits the many, not the few.
  • We believe in talent density: bringing together the best and most driven individuals to push the boundaries of continual adaptation.
  • We're looking for builders and creative thinkers ready to shape the next era of intelligence.

This listing is sourced directly from adaption's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.