Senior Research Scientist

See yourself at Dataminr

As a Senior Research Scientist at Dataminr, you will tackle some of the toughest AI problems in real time threat and risk intelligence, advancing the state of the art in large language models, generative AI, and agentic systems while seeing your work go straight into products. You will train and adapt LLMs, build multimodal and agentic systems that reason over live global data, and develop innovative solutions that surface the insights that matter most. You will do it alongside a collaborative team that cares about meaningful work. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City or Arlington, VA office.

AI Innovation at Dataminr

Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.

Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here.

Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here

Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.

The opportunity

• Build and deploy AI models that decide within seconds whether a burst of posts across 150 languages signals a real event, and push the state of the art in real time AI on live global data at massive scale.
• Advance multimodal and LLM research by creating systems that can verify a video from an unfolding crisis and agents that keep a brief accurate as facts change minute by minute.
• Take your research from experiment to production, shipping models into Dataminr products used by organizations around the world.
• See your work shape how teams everywhere respond to critical events as they unfold, where rigor, speed, and good judgment all matter.
• Partner with a diverse, interdisciplinary group of engineers, product experts, and domain specialists to deliver value for existing and new customers.
• Share your work with the wider community through publications in top tier venues, program committee service, and AI for Good collaborations with nonprofit organizations.

What you bring

At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don’t meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field, with real depth in one or more areas such as LLM training and adaptation, distillation, evaluation and benchmarking, agentic systems, retrieval and grounding, search, recommendation, multimodal models, or temporal and streaming reasoning.
• Track record of research that others build on, shown through publications at venues like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, AAAI, COLM, or CVPR.
• Hands-on experience training and adapting models at scale, backed by strong Python and PyTorch fundamentals.
• Comfort with modern training and inference tooling such as vLLM and Langfuse, so you can move from idea to a working system quickly.
• Independence to design experiments, chart your own path, and show progress through principled, well-chosen metrics.
• Fluency with AI coding and research agents, and a habit of using them to speed up your own work.
• Ability to own research projects from first idea to shipped result, and to bring teammates along as you go.
• Leadership streak that shows up as cross-functional technical guidance and mentorship, helping other scientists grow and do their best work.

About Dataminr

At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts.

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here.

We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.

We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

The base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $245,000. Actual salary will be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, applicant skills, and prior relevant experience.

In addition to the benefits set forth above, the compensation package for this role also includes an annual discretionary bonus.

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.

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