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Applied ML Scientist

Scientists who apply machine learning techniques to solve specific product or domain problems.

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Applied AI/ML ScientistApplication Scientist
28open jobs
16companies hiring
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Designing and implementing machine learning models for production systems

95%

Conducting applied research to solve real-world problems using AI and machine learning

93%

Training, fine-tuning, and evaluating large-scale deep learning models

90%

Developing generative AI models and systems including language and vision models

88%

Building end-to-end machine learning pipelines from data to deployment

85%

Designing experiments to validate novel AI techniques and measure their effectiveness

85%

Analyzing and interpreting model performance through rigorous evaluation frameworks and metrics

85%

Translating domain-specific requirements into well-defined machine learning problems

82%

Writing high-quality, production-ready, and well-tested code

80%

Working with large-scale real-world datasets across diverse domains and modalities

80%

Identifying root causes of model failures and developing mitigation strategies

80%

Conducting scaling experiments and optimizing training pipelines for large-scale models

78%

Optimizing models for specific hardware constraints and computational efficiency

78%

Monitoring and debugging machine learning systems in production environments

75%

Creating synthetic data and leveraging domain-specific datasets for model improvement

70%
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Applying reinforcement learning techniques to improve model alignment and performance

72%

Building and deploying agentic AI systems that automate complex multi-step workflows

70%

Developing multimodal AI systems that integrate and reason over diverse data types

68%

Applying foundation models and prompt engineering to downstream applications

65%

Implementing retrieval and ranking systems for information discovery and semantic search

62%
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Collaborating with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, and domain experts

88%

Communicating complex technical research findings to peers and non-technical stakeholders

82%

Translating user feedback and business requirements into technical ML solutions

75%

Publishing research findings and presenting at academic conferences

68%

Mentoring and guiding other researchers and engineers on ML projects

65%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Pythonvery high
C++moderate
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PyTorchhigh
TensorFlowhigh
JAXmoderate
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GPU computinghigh
Cloud platformsmoderate
High-performance computing (HPC)moderate
Kuberneteslow
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Gitmoderate
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Fine-tuningvery high
Generative AIvery high
LLMsvery high
Transformer modelsvery high
Attention mechanismshigh
Autoregressive modelshigh
Evaluation metricshigh
Multimodal learninghigh
Reinforcement Learninghigh
Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)high
Vision-Language Models (VLMs)high
Benchmark datasetsmoderate
Continual learningmoderate
Data annotationmoderate
Distillationmoderate
Domain adaptationmoderate
Embedding spacesmoderate
Knowledge graphsmoderate
Prompt engineeringmoderate
Semantic searchmoderate
Simulationmoderate
A/B testinglow
AutoMLlow
Graph neural networkslow
Neural Network Force Fieldslow
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Open Jobs

28 open Applied ML Scientist jobs across 16 companies.

CuspAI1w
Application Scientist (Mesoscale / Coarse Grained Force Fields)
London, UK·Research & Science
Glean1w
Senior/Staff Applied Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area·Research & Science
Figma1w
AI Applied Scientist
San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States·Research & Science
Nebius1w
Senior Applied AI Researcher (Agentic Search)
Amsterdam, Netherlands; Israel; Remote - Europe; United Kingdom·Research & Science
Waymo1w
Senior Applied Research Scientist, Perception
Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;·Research & Science
Waymo1w
Research Scientist, Prediction & Planning
Mountain View, CA USA; New York, NY USA; San Francisco, CA USA;·Research & Science
Waymo1w
Applied Research Scientist, 3D Object Detection (PhD New Grad)
Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;·Research & Science
Waymo1w
Applied Research Scientist, Perception LLM/VLM (PhD, New Grad)
Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA;·Research & Science
Waymo1w
2026 Summer Intern, PhD, Software Engineer, Predictive Planner ML/DL
Mountain View, CA, USA·Research & Science
Waymo1w
2026 Summer Intern, MS/PhD, DUE ML
London, England, United Kingdom·Research & Science
Waymo2w
Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model for Simulation
Mountain View, CA USA; San Francisco, CA USA·Research & Science
Waymo2w
Senior Research Scientist, Foundation Model (LLM/VLM)
Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York City, NY, USA·Research & Science
Twelve Labs2w
Research Scientist, Public Sector
Remote US·Research & Science
Isomorphic Labs3w
Research Scientist (Applied LLMs), London
London·Research & Science
Recursion3w
Senior Computational Biologist – Target ID
New York, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah·Research & Science
Anthropic3w
Research Economist, Economic Research
San Francisco, CA·Research & Science
Recursion3w
Associate Principal Computational Biologist, Neuroscience
New York, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah·Research & Science
Baseten3w
Post-Training Applied Researcher
San Francisco·Research & Science
Cerebras Systems1mo
Applied Machine Learning Research Scientist
Sunnyvale CA or Toronto Canada·Research & Science
Cerebras Systems1mo
Applied AI/ML Scientist
UAE·Research & Science