Senior / Lead Research Scientist - Serbia
Inworld · Remote · Serbia ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior / Lead level
- Fully remote
- AI & Foundation Models
- English required
- Impact-focused research
Join Inworld's research lab to work on real-time AI systems serving hundreds of millions of users. You will tackle ambiguous problems in foundation models, agents, and large-scale inference, focusing on practical impact over pure academic output.
The team values first-principles thinking and full-cycle research ownership. You will frame questions, run experiments, and ship results that power experiences for major tech companies and startups alike.
What you'll do
- Frame unclear problems and design experiments to solve them
- Conduct full-cycle research from hypothesis to shipped result
- Develop and improve foundation models and new architectures
- Build robust evaluation loops and quality measurement systems
- Collaborate daily with US-based leadership and engineering teams
What you'll need
- Strong background in ML/NLP with practical or academic evidence
- Experience with training, RL, reward modeling, or scaling models
- Proficiency in English for written and spoken communication
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity without a predefined roadmap
- Proven track record of building, breaking, and understanding systems
Nice to have
- PhD in Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing
- Published research at top conferences like NeurIPS or ICML
- Experience with multimodal models, agents, or world models
- Public open-source contributions or non-trivial side projects
- Background in interdisciplinary experiments or competitions
Stack
- Foundation Models
- LLMs
- Real-time Inference
- Modular APIs
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Daily collaboration with US-based teams
- Flat structure with minimal process
- Fast iteration cycles