Founding Research Scientist Jobs - May 2026
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Burnin
Founding Engineering Lead
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
We are building the trust stack for AI code generation for high-stakes computing where wrong numbers cost real money: a statically typed functional language designed for coding models, a compiler whose guarantees double as audit-grade trust infrastructure, an…
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L2 Labs
Founding (AI/Software) Engineer
Posted 4 months ago
L2 Labs is a new applied AI lab focused on database systems, data mapping, and data integration. The company recently closed a pre-seed funding round, established partnerships with Cornell and NYU, and secured a large enterprise customer. The team consists of…
Location
NYC
Compensation
Generous equity package with meaningful upside; no salary disclosed
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Burnin
Founding Researcher
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
Founding research role to own the research agenda: invariant learning (extracting implicit codebase rules for real-time grading), continuous-time evaluation design (investigating why LLM agents fail under temporal pressure), and new environment design. Work o…
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Location
Remote (US East Coast/Europe), London, NYC
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L2 Labs
Founding (AI/Software) Engineer
Posted 6 months ago
L2 Labs is a new kind of AI lab pursuing research at the intersection of database systems and AI, driven by real-world challenges from our enterprise partners. We are backed by Cornell University, https://www.focal.vc/, and New York University. We are a team …
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Location
NYC
Compensation
No salary specified; offers meaningful upside in the form of a generous equity package.
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Sophont Inc.
Miscellaneous
Posted 9 months ago
Sophont is a public-benefit corporation building open multimodal foundation models for medicine. They are hiring founding research engineers and scientists to lead and contribute to high-impact medical AI research. No previous background in medical AI is requ…