# Research Scientist

About the company Our client is an artificial intelligence company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead applied machine learning research projects from initial idea through model training, testing and production rollout. Build the tooling that supports experimentation and contribute to the technical direction of a young research group. What you'll do - Fine-tune large language and multimodal models after pretraining, using reinforcement learning and related techniques. - Investigate how autonomous software agents can stay effective on extended tasks, including planning, retaining context, recovering from errors and deferring to people at the right moments. - Create simulated software environments, data generation pipelines and test suites used to train and measure agents. - Develop approaches that let agents interpret and keep track of what users are trying to achieve across lengthy sessions. - Plan careful experiments and choose the problems most worth pursuing. - Move promising findings into production features. - Contribute to setting research priorities and engineering direction for the group. Requirements What we're looking for - Outstandi

- **Id**: 3579957
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/raydar-research-scientist-5>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T17:26:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 36
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2548
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4478753
- **Name**: Raydar
- **Domain**: raydar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/raydar-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 500000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 500000

## Technologies

- **Computer Use** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 36

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-01T01:38:31Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.295
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 36
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, wave, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 500000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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