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Distinguished Researcher, reporting to the Chief Scientist. The research time is genuinely protected, and the programme is the researcher's to shape.
A foundation model lab. The lab focuses on multi-modal capability — vision, audio, and embodied agents. Around 90 staff, most of the headcount in research, with an applied-research bench. The lab operates a flat senior-IC structure alongside its management track.
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Distinguished Researcher, reporting to the Chief Scientist. Named senior IC seat with protected research time and a defined twelve-month research programme.
Owns one of the lab's three named research programmes — the seat does not manage people, but works with a small bench of senior research engineers assigned to the programme.
Expected to publish at the lab's top-conference cadence and to represent the programme at relevant academic and industry convenings.
San Francisco-based, office-first.
The research time is genuinely protected, and the programme is the researcher's to shape. The role sits on the senior-IC track alongside the management track, and the research agenda is defined rather than discovered after arrival. On-site in San Francisco, the role is alongside the lab's applied-research bench.
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