Senior Applied Researcher

Company Description

Wix makes it possible for anyone to succeed online. Since 2006, we’ve grown to around 5,300 employees in 22 countries, launched over 40 products, and serve over 282 million users and their visitors worldwide. At Wix, we push you to innovate, evolve in non-traditional ways, and collaborate. We operate in small teams that work closely together. 

Although we’re already industry leaders in web creation and business, our work is nowhere near done. Our goal is to become the main engine of the Internet in this era where AI revolutionalizes how businesses are interacting with their customers. 

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Wix was built around the idea that everyone has the right to be successful, online. This same vision defines us as an employer: creating a work environment where everyone is welcome, and anyone has the right to succeed.

As a Senior Applied Researcher, you will be working as part of the Wix CTO Office team, researching problems that can give Wix’s products competitive advantage in a wide range of challenges. The team is working on vision models, LLM based Agentic architectures, Reinforcement Learning, Reasoning and more. 

On your day to day, you will:

• Design, train and implement models that solve specific needs

• Collaborate with Wix product teams to design and integrate AI models

• Run POCs

• Explore cutting edge solutions that can be the next strategic direction for Wix

• Brainstorm and Research novel ideas in various fields

• Demonstrated creativity and willingness to tackle ambitious, high-risk problems

• PhD in CS or related field, or MSc and 5+ years of applied research experience

• 5+ years of research experience in computer vision, machine learning, autonomous perception, or related areas

• Programming skills in Python and experience with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, HuggingFace, LangChain…)

• Strong publication record at top-tier AI/ML conferences and journals

• Hands-on experience with large-scale training

• Strong knowledge of deep learning models and common model architectures such as transformer models, LLMs, CNNs, RNNs.

• Proven ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

• Advantage - open-source contributions to ML/AI frameworks

We are Wix's Data Science CTO Office team, a small team composed of researchers and engineers. We work with different groups at Wix and with the CEO on various research projects. Some are for new features to be added to Wix products, some are research in areas that could give Wix a strategic advantage.