# Applied Research Scientist, Agents

About the role: Lumafield’s AI is woven deeply throughout its products and platform. As an Applied Research Scientist, Agents, you will extend what is possible with Lumafield’s agentic tools. This involves working across the agent stack, from top level harness and eval development down to fine-tuning and pre-training of foundational encoders for spatial reasoning. You will get the chance to work with manufacturing and design data that is not available anywhere else. What you'll do: Benchmark local LLMs, VLMs, and perception encoders. Fine tune and post-train models on domain-specific data and tasks. Develop harnesses and build real, deployed agents that our customers use. Develop harnesses and build real, deployed agents that our customers use. Develop evaluations that predict real world agent performance accurately. Partner with product and engineering to continually improve agents and agentic workflows. About you: Are curious, detail-oriented, and a rigorous empiricist. People are often surprised by how fast you can build a prototype. Have a robust understanding of the fundamentals of LLMs, VLMs, and vision transformers. Are adept at using AI for leverage, not as a substitute fo

- **Id**: 4002519
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lumafield-applied-research-scientist-agents>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T23:06:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T04:23:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1565
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Electronics, Manufacturing, Testing, Inspection & Certification

## Company

- **Id**: 18716
- **Name**: Lumafield
- **Domain**: lumafield.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lumafield>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

## Salary

- **Min**: 210000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Pre-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T04:23:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T05:33:58Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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