Founding Applied Scientist at AI startup

Founding Applied Scientist Company Description

Fast-growing AI startup

As a Founding Applied Scientist, you will architect the foundational memory, reasoning, and learning capabilities of autonomous agentic systems. You will transcend traditional ML engineering by pioneering technologies for long-horizon planning and knowledge representation. This role focuses on building enterprise-grade superintelligence by combining cutting‑edge research with world‑class engineering to define the future of agentic AI.

London, UK

• Be a founding member, directly shaping the core architecture of next‑generation autonomous agents
• Backed by top‑tier VCs, combining early‑stage impact with funding stability
• Innovate beyond standard RAG on unsolved problems in multi‑stage retrieval and synthetic world models

• Design and scale foundational long‑horizon memory and knowledge infrastructure for agents to reason over evolving enterprise contexts
• Develop state‑of‑the‑art search and retriever systems using novel indexing techniques and knowledge representations
• Apply deep expertise in reinforcement learning and reasoning to guide agentic behavior in complex, multi‑step tasks

• World‑class expertise in search, retrieval, or reinforcement learning with applied research experience in production systems
• Strong engineering fundamentals to build robust, enterprise‑grade systems capable of scaling to trillion‑agent interactions
• Thrives in high‑autonomy environments and is motivated to define foundational technologies for enterprise‑level agentic superintelligence