Applied Research Scientist, Agents

Lumafield•San Francisco, CA

1d•$210,000 - $230,000

About The Position

Lumafield’s AI is deeply integrated throughout its products and platform. As an Applied Research Scientist, Agents, you will extend the capabilities of Lumafield’s agentic tools by working across the agent stack, from developing high-level harnesses and evaluations to fine-tuning and pre-training foundational encoders for spatial reasoning. You will work with manufacturing and design data that is not available elsewhere.

Requirements

Be curious, detail-oriented, and a rigorous empiricist.
Build prototypes quickly.
Have a robust understanding of the fundamentals of LLMs, VLMs, and vision transformers.
Be adept at using AI for leverage without substituting it for depth of understanding.
Have strong Python, data, and algorithms foundations.
Be an excellent technical communicator.
Have 5–10 years of experience in a relevant field.

Nice To Haves

Experience in design, manufacturing, or hardware.
An advanced degree in machine learning, optimization, or a relevant discipline.
Experience with 2D or 3D data and associated perception tasks.

Responsibilities

Benchmark local LLMs, VLMs, and perception encoders.
Fine-tune and post-train models on domain-specific data and tasks.
Develop harnesses and build real, deployed agents used by customers.
Develop evaluations that accurately predict real-world agent performance.
Partner with product and engineering to continually improve agents and agentic workflows.