# Applied Scientist (ML) at Samaya AI

- Company: Samaya AI
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://samaya.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-07-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/samayaai/jobs/4791004007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/samaya-ai-applied-scientist-ml/

## 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

Tags: Engineering