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Research Scientist

Tessera Labs · San Jose Office (HQ) · On-site

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About Tessera Labs

Tessera compresses ERP modernization from years to weeks with governed, multi-agent AI. Backed by a16z.

About the role

We're looking for a Research Scientist to set and pursue a research agenda for reliable long-horizon agents operating inside real enterprises.

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Tessera Labs is a new category of enterprise software: an AI platform that changes how the world's largest companies run.

Every large enterprise carries the same weight — decades of accumulated process, data, and code that no longer match the business it has become. Changing any of it is a program measured in years and hundreds of millions of dollars, staffed by armies of consultants, and it fails more often than anyone admits. Most companies have quietly accepted this as the cost of being large.

We don't. Tessera is a transformation engine: a governed, multi-agent platform that understands an enterprise's process, data, and code as one connected system and changes it in weeks rather than years. We're vendor-agnostic by design — SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, Snowflake, MuleSoft — and tied to none of them.

Two things make this hard, and they're the reason the research is interesting. Governance: every action is logged, traceable, and reversible, because our customers are regulated and these are the systems that close their books. And generality: the platform has to work on landscapes it has never seen, at companies whose complexity is genuinely unique to them.

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