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We have created the world's largest licensed platform of scarce, proprietary data for AI, spanning video, audio, text, and business workflows.\nTroveo indexes, enriches, and packages this high-quality data into formats ready for training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and agentic use cases. Backed by top investors, we’re a small, high-impact team solving one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI development.\nRole Overview\nWe’re looking for a Senior Researcher who thrives on exploration, discovery, and experimentation. You’re naturally curious and a tinkerer at heart, someone who wants to get hands-on with new models, techniques, and ideas to understand what they can actually do. You’ll stay ahead of industry trends and advances in AI and machine learning that open new ways to leverage our data, continuously surface opportunities to enrich our existing data assets, and keep us sharp on relevant AI and machine learning progress. Your focus is clarity on the what and why: well-researched opportunities, idea validation, and clear problem definitions that help guide the business toward its next potential opportunities in multimodal content, audiovisual assets, and training data generation.\nWhat You’ll Do\nMonitor and synthesize trends across our industry, AI and machine learning research, foundation models, agents, evaluation techniques, and data enrichment methods.\n\nTinker with emerging models, tools, datasets, and techniques to understand their practical potential. Build lightweight prototypes, run experiments, and explore unconventional combinations to turn interesting ideas into evidence.\n\nIdentify high-leverage opportunities to enrich or restructure our existing assets (internal and external), including multimodal and audiovisual sources as well as approaches for generating high-quality training corpora that could improve model performance, product features, or decision-making.\n\nTranslate research into actionable outputs: opportunity briefs, experiment proposals, success criteria, and recommendations on what to explore next.\n\nOwn and advance a research program around priority data opportunity areas, including designing and running experiments and proofs-of-concept to validate hypotheses and de-risk ideas.\n\nPartner with product, prototypers, and engineers by providing well-scoped ideas and serving as a research advisor.\n\nMaintain living knowledge bases and briefings that keep the broader team informed.\n\nEvaluate emerging techniques and papers for relevance in our context.\n\nContribute the research perspective to prioritization and longer-term opportunity discussions.\n\nSupport business operations in ad hoc requests.\n\nRequirements\n5+ years of relevant experience in applied research or machine learning research.\n\nStrong tinkerer’s mindset: enjoys getting hands-on with new models, APIs, datasets, tools, and techniques, and is comfortable learning by building and experimenting.\n\nDeep familiarity with modern paradigms including large language models, multimodal models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent architectures, fine-tuning, model distillation, and evaluation frameworks.\n\nClear communication of research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nPreferred Experience\nMaster’s degree in Applied Sciences, Statistics, or a related field required.\n\nTrack record centered on opportunity discovery and problem definition.\n\nExperience with data enrichment approaches such as synthetic data generation, active learning, weak supervision, and knowledge graph construction.\n\nAbility to stay current across research and industry sources while separating signal from noise.\n\nExperience collaborating with prototyping or applied teams is a plus.\n\nDomain familiarity with our business area (or ability to ramp quickly) is valuable.\n\nWhat We Offer\nComprehensive Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% employer-paid for employees)\n\nFlexible PTO & Paid Holidays: Unlimited PTO with encouragement to actually use it\n\nRemote-First Policy: Work from anywhere in the US (with occasional team offsites)\n\nLearning & Growth: Annual learning stipend, access to top conferences, and direct mentorship from experienced founders\n\nEquity Ownership: Competitive equity package with clear growth potential as we scale\n\nModern Tech Stack & Tools: Budget for the best equipment and software\n\nStrong Culture: High-trust, low-ego environment focused on impact, transparency, and work-life balance. We believe great work happens when people are supported, challenged, and given ownership.\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer\n Troveo is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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