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There are now companies operating entirely AI-first on Netic.\nYou’ll join our team with relentless builders from Scale, Databricks, HRT, Meta, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard in bringing frontier AI to the physical economy, where the problems are hard, the data is complex, and the impact is immediate and tangible.\nAs an Applied AI Research Engineer, you’ll dive deep into cutting-edge research, understand the business functions we put on autopilot inside-out, and execute targeted ML projects that deliver pure magic.\nWhat You'll Do:\nStudy the frontier: Track frontier work in traditional ML, LLMs, multimodal models, retrieval, and agentic systems-then distill it into ideas we can ship.\n\nIdentify high-ROI projects: Partner with GTM and ops teams to spot bottlenecks in products; define ML projects that unlock significant leverage for customers.\n\nBuild targeted models: Own the full cycle-data curation, training, evaluation, and deployment-delivering systems that solve real customer pain points.\n\nProductionize solutions: Integrate models into our real-time platform via robust APIs and streaming pipelines, ensuring model performance and guardrails from day one.\n\nSelf-direct & ship: Operate like a founder-set technical roadmap, validate quickly, and iterate based on real-world results.\n\nWhat You'll Bring:\nDeep ML experience: 4+ years with cutting-edge ML techniques; 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