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ZRG Careers · 8 hours ago

Applied AI Researcher

positionCambridge, MA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level

ZRG Careers is representing a client that is building a next-generation AI platform for autonomous system design and operations. They are seeking Applied AI Researchers with expertise in agentic AI and inference optimization to advance the reasoning and discovery engine at the core of their platform.

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Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Research and develop new agentic AI approaches for system design, inference optimization, and performance reasoning
Discover and validate novel algorithms, including for request routing, scheduling, parallelization, GPU allocation, etc
Translate research insights into production-grade components of the platform
Build prototypes rapidly—run experiments, gather feedback, integrate results
Work closely with founders and engineering team on shaping research direction, system abstractions, and long-term roadmap
Engage with early users to understand real-world workloads and optimization needs
Contribute to architecture, tooling, and engineering standards as part of a small early team

Qualification

Agentic AI expertiseInference optimizationContext engineeringReasoning agentsMCP server designCoding agent designExperiment designPhDEquivalentResearch backgroundRapid prototypingFeedback integration

Required

Expertise in modern AI, AI agents, and architectures for agentic systems
Expertise in reasoning agents, MCP server design, and/or coding agent design
Expertise in context engineering and developing agentic systems on large codebases and technical document corpora
Ability to design experiments, validate new ideas quickly, and reason from first principles
PhD or equivalent with a strong research background in the relevant areas

Preferred

Experience in research-heavy environments (quant research, top AI labs, AI/ML)
Hunger to work on new, unsolved problems to apply AI to complex computer systems
Dislike for rigid bureaucratic engineering processes, but appreciation for disciplined engineering rigor

Company

ZRG Careers

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ZRG is a global talent advisory firm that is changing the way companies hire and manage talent.
dateFounded in 2011
location
Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
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https://www.hubrecruiting.com

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
unknown
2022-12-06Acquired

Leadership Team

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Matthew Corbett
Founder and CEO
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Irina Baranova
Senior Technical Talent Partner (Partnered with a Digital Healthcare Company) Contract
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