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Our platform uses AI to turn creative and performance signals into campaign strategies, match brands with creators, recommend sponsorship prices, and review videos against brand requirements.\nEach campaign generates feedback: how brands respond to our recommendations, which offers creators accept, and how the resulting content performs. We build self improving loops that learn from these behaviors and outcomes to better understand preferences, predict performance, and improve campaign decisions.\nThe work sits between research and product. You'll formulate research problems from product needs, test and extend methods from academia and industry, develop new approaches when existing methods fall short, and work with engineering and product to translate successful research into production systems.\nWhat You'll Work On\nMultimodal intelligence. Build systems that understand creators, brands, briefs, and content across video, audio, image, and text.\nRanking, recommendation, and prediction. Develop models that predict creator-brand fit and campaign outcomes and make better decisions from sparse, heterogeneous feedback.\nFoundation models and agents. Apply LLMs and multimodal models to campaign planning, discovery, creative understanding, execution, and optimization. Use Agentio's proprietary data for prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, post-training, and, where it makes sense, specialized model training.\nLearning and decision-making. Turn campaign data into training signals, evals, and learning loops while tackling problems in optimization, exploration, measurement, and marketplace dynamics.\nPart of the role is deciding which advances in AI and ML are useful for Agentio and where new methods are needed.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn research problems from problem formulation through experimentation, validation, and product application.\n\nDesign rigorous experiments and evaluations, develop new methods where needed, and establish evidence that research advances improve product and marketplace outcomes.\n\nDevelop models, algorithms, training approaches, datasets, and evaluation methods when existing techniques are insufficient. 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