Robust understanding of LLMs, VLMs, and vision transformers
Excellent technical communication skills
Curious, detail-oriented, and a rigorous empiricist
Ability to rapidly prototype solutions
Responsibilities
Benchmark local LLMs, VLMs, and perception encoders
Fine-tune and post-train models on domain-specific data
Develop harnesses and build deployed agents for customer use
Create evaluations to predict real-world agent performance
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to enhance agents and workflows
Benefits
Competitive cash and equity compensation
Health & wellness stipend
401k plan
Parental leave
Flexible PTO
Commuter benefits
Company-wide events
Full Job Description
About the role:
Lumafield's AI is woven deeply throughout its products and platform. As an Applied Research Scientist, Agents, you will extend what is possible with Lumafield's agentic tools. This involves working across the agent stack, from top level harness and eval development down to fine-tuning and pre-training of foundational encoders for spatial reasoning. You will get the chance to work with manufacturing and design data that is not available anywhere else.
What you'll do:
Benchmark local LLMs, VLMs, and perception encoders.
Fine tune and post-train models on domain-specific data and tasks.
Develop harnesses and build real, deployed agents that our customers use.
Develop harnesses and build real, deployed agents that our customers use.
Develop evaluations that predict real world agent performance accurately.
Partner with product and engineering to continually improve agents and agentic workflows.
About you:
Are curious, detail-oriented, and a rigorous empiricist.
People are often surprised by how fast you can build a prototype.
Have a robust understanding of the fundamentals of LLMs, VLMs, and vision transformers.
Are adept at using AI for leverage, not as a substitute for depth of understanding.
Have strong python, data, and algorithms foundations.
Are an excellent technical communicator.
5-10 years of experience in a relevant field.
Bonus:
Experience in design, manufacturing, or hardware.
Advanced degree in machine learning, optimization, or a relevant discipline.
Experience with 2D or 3D data and associated perception tasks.
$210,000 - $230,000 a year
Lumafield offers both competitive cash and equity compensation, as well as a health & wellness stipend, 401k, parental leave, flexible PTO, commuter benefits, company wide events and more!
Reach out if you want to be a part of what we are building.
