- Company Name
- Pinetree Research
- Job Title
- Founding Machine Learning Researcher
- Job Description
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Job Title:
Founding Machine Learning Researcher
Role Summary:
Lead research on agentic machine learning systems, focusing on planning, long‑horizon reasoning, and multimodal perception for reliable computer‑use agents. Translate experimental insights into production‑ready solutions while maintaining rigorous scientific standards and publishing results.
Expectations:
- Drive novel research that directly impacts deployed AI agents, ensuring theories are testable and implementable.
- Maintain a continuous pipeline of experiments, benchmarks, and iterative improvements.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, moving ideas through design, prototyping, and production while documenting findings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct advanced research on planning, reasoning, tool use, and execution in agentic ML systems.
- Design and evaluate learning methods for computer use, including vision‑language models, multimodal perception, and UI understanding.
- Develop and maintain benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation frameworks for agent reliability, robustness, and safety.
- Fine‑tune, distill, and apply reinforcement learning techniques for real‑world task execution.
- Analyze agent failures, identify root causes, and propose theoretically grounded remedies.
- Author internal reports and prepare external publications in leading ML conferences.
Required Skills:
- Deep expertise in machine learning, AI, or related disciplines.
- Strong experimental design, statistical analysis, and critical evaluation skills.
- Ability to work effectively in fast‑moving, ambiguous environments.
Required Education & Certifications:
- PhD or equivalent industry research experience in agents, robotics, HCI, or applied ML.
- Proven publication record in top-tier venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP).
- Familiarity with browser automation, web agents, or UI interaction models is a plus.