Research Scientist
US$195,000 – US$400,000 / yr base salary
Posted 21 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Founding Research Scientist, Applied AI”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$195,000 – US$400,000 / yr |
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Field of studyArtificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Machine learning, Statistics (or related)
Study levelDoctorate
About Agentio
Agentio builds AI-native infrastructure for creator advertising. Our platform uses AI to turn creative and performance signals into campaign strategies, match brands with creators, recommend sponsorship prices, and review videos against brand requirements.
Each campaign generates feedback: how brands respond to our recommendations, which offers creators accept, and how the resulting content performs. We build self improving loops that learn from these behaviors and outcomes to better understand preferences, predict performance, and improve campaign decisions.
The work sits between research and product. You'll formulate research problems from product needs, test and extend methods from academia and industry, develop new approaches when existing methods fall short, and work with engineering and product to translate successful research into production systems.
What You'll Work On
Multimodal intelligence. Build systems that understand creators, brands, briefs, and content across video, audio, image, and text.
Ranking, recommendation, and prediction. Develop models that predict creator-brand fit and campaign outcomes and make better decisions from sparse, heterogeneous feedback.
Foundation models and agents. Apply LLMs and multimodal models to campaign planning, discovery, creative understanding, execution, and optimization. Use Agentio's proprietary data for prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, post-training, and, where it makes sense, specialized model training.
Learning and decision-making. Turn campaign data into training signals, evals, and learning loops while tackling problems in optimization, exploration, measurement, and marketplace dynamics.
Part of the role is deciding which advances in AI and ML are useful for Agentio and where new methods are needed.
What You'll Do
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Own research problems from problem formulation through experimentation, validation, and product application.
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Design rigorous experiments and evaluations, develop new methods where needed, and establish evidence that research advances improve product and marketplace outcomes.
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Develop models, algorithms, training approaches, datasets, and evaluation methods when existing techniques are insufficient. Partner with engineering to turn successful research into reliable product capabilities.
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Help define Agentio's research agenda, identify high-value research questions, and set a high bar for experimental rigor across applied ML work.