# Senior Staff Research Engineer/Scientist at ServiceNow

- Company: ServiceNow
- What the company does: It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. Backed by Greylock and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.servicenow.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Santa Clara, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $232K to $405K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow/744000146569969?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/servicenow-senior-staff-research-engineer-scientist/

## About the role

As a Staff Research Scientist, you will independently lead a major workstream in agent learning and recursive self-improvement. You will turn systematic failures and successful trajectories into hypotheses, experiments, training signals, and deployable improvements to model weights and/or the executable harness around the model. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of relevant AI/ML research or engineering experience, or equivalent research depth and impact, PhD or other advanced degree required
- Track record of setting technical direction and leading multiple ambiguous, high-impact research efforts across team boundaries
- Strong foundations in machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and experimentation, with hands-on experience training or adapting large language or multimodal models
- Advanced Python and PyTorch skills, including modifying training code, data pipelines, evaluators, or research infrastructure
- Practical depth in agentic AI, including tool use, planning, memory, retrieval, environments, or long-horizon execution
- Experience designing decision-useful evaluations using robust datasets, trajectory analysis, graders or verifiers, and error analysis

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