Applied AI Researcher

As an Applied AI Researcher at Tavily, you’ll explore and deploy cutting-edge techniques in agentic workflows, web infrastructure, and RAG—transforming ideas into production-ready systems.

This role is ideal for someone passionate about applied research and eager to shape one of the most foundational layers in the agent stack.

What You’ll Do:

• Be the expert in the latest research and tooling around LLMs, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agent architectures.
• Develop benchmarks and evaluation frameworks.
• Productionize research and build end-to-end reliable systems and models.
• Contribute to internal research documentation and, when appropriate, public writing or talks.
• Stay up to date on relevant academic and open-source developments in the field.

What We’re Looking For:

• M.Sc. in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related technical field — or B.Sc. with 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML applications.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, embeddings, cross-encoders, vector search, and evaluation techniques.
• Experience running experiments and analyzing results with rigor.
• Ability to translate ideas into prototypes and iterate quickly.
• Familiarity with open-source libraries, models and research environments.

Nice to Have:

• PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience in a fast-paced startup.
• Paper publications in conferences.