Trusted by leading financial institutions, Samaya AI accelerates research, automates complex workflows, and delivers sharper investment insights with speed and precision. Backed by NEA, AI Grant and Air Street.
About the role
As an Applied Scientist (ML) at Samaya, you will collaborate closely with our product and engineering teams, and use cutting-edge ML research to transform how users interact with Samaya in their daily workflows. You'll drive impact across the entire ML lifecycle: from problem formulation and system analysis to data collection, benchmark development, model training, and production deployment. You’ll also have opportunities to publish your work and deliver impact to the ML community.
What they're looking for
- PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field
- Strong background in deep learning, large language models, and NLP techniques
- A strong track record of first-author publications in top AI/NLP conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP)
- Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or Transformers, and strong coding skills
- 2+ years of experience in an industry applied ML research environment
- Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, reasoning, LLM training and reinforcement learning techniques
More about this role
As an Applied Scientist (ML) at Samaya, you will collaborate closely with our product and engineering teams, and use cutting-edge ML research to transform how users interact with Samaya in their daily workflows. You'll drive impact across the entire ML lifecycle: from problem formulation and system analysis to data collection, benchmark development, model training, and production deployment. You’ll also have opportunities to publish your work and deliver impact to the ML community. Your expertise will advance our capabilities in these critical technical domains:
- Retrieval, ranking and RAG
- LLM post-training and reinforcement learning
- AI agents for knowledge workflows
- ML benchmarks
Your work has the potential to transform the following key Samaya products and deliver impacts to tens of thousands of professional users:
Instant QA: Our custom-built Question Answer system using state of the art in house models, seamlessly trained to work together to enable instant expert intelligence.
Agents: You will enable expert-level agentic workflows to automate comprehensive knowledge work and enable AI tools that work with experts to gain new insights.
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