Writer
AI research scientist
San Francisco, CA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- 🚀 ABOUT WRITER WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work.
- Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence.
- And we're proving it's possible - through powerful, trustworthy AI that unites IT and business teams together to unlock enterprise-wide transformation.
Responsibilities
- Lead an independent, high-impact research agenda on large language models and agentic systems, owning projects from early hypothesis through model training, evaluation, and production deployment
- Build novel evaluation benchmarks and methodologies that push beyond existing limitations, establishing rigorous measures for how well models perform on complex, real-world enterprise tasks
- Mentor and uplevel fellow researchers and engineers on the team, helping set a high bar for scientific rigor, experimental design, and research culture
- Strong command of Python and PyTorch (or JAX), with the engineering depth to build and scale training pipelines, evaluation infrastructure, and data synthesis workflows yourself - not just direct others to do it
- Fertility and family planning support
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri https://www.galleri.com/partner/writer
Compensation
- We are open to hiring for this role at multiple levels, with compensation ranges scaled to match your experience, expertise, and the scope of the role.
Benefits
- A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field - or equivalent demonstrated research experience with a strong portfolio of independent, published work
- Generous PTO, plus company holidays
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
- Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
- Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
- Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
- Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
- Learning and development stipend
- Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k
Visa & Work Authorization
- in, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law
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