AI Researcher – Part-Time (20 hrs/week)
About the Role
You will lead high-impact applied research that combines AI, blockchain, and cross-chain interoperability. You will design and run experiments end-to-end, prepare data, fine-tune models, evaluate performance, and build functional prototypes and demos. You will translate research outcomes into executable solutions and collaborate with engineers to integrate them into production.
Requirements
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or related field
- 3+ years of full-time hands-on ML/AI research experience
- Expertise or ongoing research in AI agents or generative AI
- Proficiency with PyTorch or JAX and experience in fine-tuning and evaluation design
- Experience with LLM-powered agent experimentation
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, TypeScript, shell scripting, and cloud environments
- Fluency in English
- Ability to work independently with minimal guidance
- Proven track record shipping models or agents, open-source projects, or publications (nice to have)
- Experience with knowledge graph, search engine, information retrieval, NLP, or multimodal AI (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Formulate and execute small high-leverage research projects
- Build and validate end-to-end prototypes from data preparation to demos
- Design and run experimental pipelines and define evaluation metrics
- Fine-tune and evaluate models and LLM-powered agent systems
- Translate research outcomes into executable solutions and collaborate with engineering
- Monitor and adapt state-of-the-art ML and generative AI methods to real use cases
Benefits
- Token incentives