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.
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Founding Applied Scientist at fast-growing AI startup
Are you a world-class expert in reinforcement learning or search systems? Join a fast-growing AI startup in London as a Founding Applied Scientist and architect the next generation of agentic superintelligence. This isn't just another RAG role—you'll be building foundational long-horizon memory and synthetic world models for autonomous agents. Backed by top-tier VCs, this role offers the rare chance to define how AI agents learn, reason, and scale within the enterprise from day one.
Overview
Role overview
Company
About the company
Fast-growing AI startup
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Design and scale foundational long-horizon memory and knowledge infrastructure that enables agents to reason over evolving enterprise contexts.
- Develop state-of-the-art search and retriever systems using novel indexing techniques and new forms of knowledge representation.
- Apply deep expertise in reinforcement learning and reasoning to guide agentic behavior in complex, multi-step tasks.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses world-class expertise in search, retrieval, or reinforcement learning with a track record of applying research to production systems.
- Demonstrates strong engineering fundamentals to design and deploy robust, enterprise-grade systems capable of scaling to trillion-agent interactions.
- Thrives in high-autonomy environments and is driven to define the foundational technologies for enterprise-level agentic superintelligence.
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What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- You will be a founding member of the team, directly shaping the core architecture of next-generation autonomous agents.
- Backed by top-tier VCs, the company offers the stability of significant funding with the high-impact environment of an early-stage startup.
- The role moves beyond standard RAG, allowing you to innovate on unsolved problems in multi-stage retrieval and synthetic world models.
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