Applied AI Researcher

Compunnel

$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience with a strong research background
  • Advanced degree preferred (MS or PhD) in AI, ML, computer science, statistics, or related fields
  • Expertise in machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and generative AI
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, and applied GenAI experimentation
  • Proficient in Python and frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face
  • Skilled in designing and communicating rigorous experimental findings

Responsibilities

  • Conduct applied research in advanced AI technologies
  • Design experiments to assess model performance and safety
  • Prototype AI solutions for various financial use cases
  • Develop comprehensive evaluation methodologies for AI models
  • Assess and implement a range of model optimization techniques
  • Collaborate to convert prototypes into production-ready systems
  • Distill emerging AI research into actionable business insights
  • Produce research papers and technical documentation

Benefits

  • Cutting-edge research environment
  • Collaborative team focused on practical AI applications
  • Flexibility to translate innovative concepts into real-world solutions
  • Opportunity to work at the intersection of AI and banking
  • Access to resources and support for personal and professional development
Full Job Description
JOB SUMMARY
Bridge advanced AI research and practical enterprise use cases by validating models, methods, and prototypes that can become production-grade solutions. The role focuses on measurable business value, rigorous experimentation, model behavior, and safe translation of research into banking-relevant applications.

Key Responsibilities
• Conduct applied research in LLMs, GenAI, NLP, information retrieval, multimodal AI, synthetic data, and agentic AI.
• Design experiments to evaluate model performance, robustness, safety, scalability, interpretability, and enterprise usefulness.
• Prototype AI solutions for use cases such as document intelligence, financial analysis, compliance support, knowledge retrieval, and operational automation.
• Develop evaluation methodologies using golden datasets, adversarial testing, offline benchmarks, human review, and business outcome metrics.
• Assess prompt optimization, RAG, fine-tuning, instruction tuning, synthetic data generation, distillation, and model adaptation techniques.
• Collaborate with engineers to convert prototypes into production-ready systems with clear requirements, limitations, and acceptance criteria.
• Track emerging AI research and translate relevant advances into practical recommendations for the enterprise.
• Produce internal research papers, technical notes, implementation guides, and thought-leadership materials.

Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of experience, with strong research background.
• Advanced degree preferred, usually MS or PhD in AI, ML, computer science, statistics, computational linguistics, mathematics, or related field.
• Strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, NLP, transformers, information retrieval, and generative AI.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG, model evaluation, and applied GenAI experimentation.
• Python skills with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, or equivalent research frameworks.
• Ability to design rigorous experiments and communicate findings to technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications
• Research or applied science experience in banking, finance, compliance, risk, legal, operations, or enterprise knowledge systems.
• Publications, patents, internal research contributions, or open-source AI contributions.
• Familiarity with Responsible AI, model validation, privacy constraints, and regulated deployment environments.

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