Research Scientist
Scaled Cognition
Research Scientist
Scaled Cognition
Agentic AI platform with model-based reasoning
Scaled Cognition is the world’s only model lab dedicated exclusively to customer experience and pioneering agentic models purpose-built for reliable action-taking enterprise applications. Backed by Khosla Ventures, the company’s flagship Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT) eliminates hallucinations, enforces enterprise policies and increases reliability in real-world CX workflows. Founded by serial AI entrepreneurs, former Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Conversational AI Dan Roth, and UC Berkeley AI Professor Dan Klein, and built by a team of world-class PhD researchers and engineers, Scaled Cognition advances the science of agentic AI to deliver safe, policy-aligned automation that enterprises can trust.
As a Research Scientist at Scaled Cognition you will:
Develop and implement novel, next-generation neural architectures.
Work closely with machine learning and product engineers to direct research toward strategic product needs and align product development with novel model capabilities.
Stay up-to-date with the latest academic research and react quickly to new discoveries.
You might be the right person for the job if you:
Enjoy exploring opportunities for innovation and aligning them with strategic objectives.
Can rapidly prototype and evaluate new modeling techniques.
Excel in collaborative, cross-functional team settings.
Agentic AI platform with model-based reasoning
Scaled Cognition builds AI systems with human-like common sense to enable better human–AI collaboration. Its Model-Based Agents maintain an internal world model to understand context, reason about problems, and learn from interactions, rather than just predicting the next word. The approach differs from typical LLMs by using a cognitive architecture aimed at grounding reasoning and common-sense understanding for proactive, agentic applications. The company aims to offer dependable, context-aware AI tools to developers and organizations through a waitlist, signaling a future API-based B2B model.
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