Bay Area, United States of America Hybrid Full-time

Adaption Labs is hiring a Research Scientist / Research Engineer

About the Role

This position centers on advancing real-time learning and efficiency in intelligent systems, leveraging synthetic data optimization, gradient-free methods, and interface co-design to create adaptive AI that evolves through interaction.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and refine product-integrated algorithms that dynamically respond to real-time feedback and system signals
  • Create novel feedback mechanisms that enhance algorithmic performance and learning quality
  • Work jointly across software, hardware, and algorithm teams to improve end-to-end system efficiency
  • Focus measurement on outcomes that reflect tangible, real-world impact
  • Ensure algorithmic designs prioritize interaction with live environments, reinforcing the importance of product integration

Benefits

  • Flexible work model combining in-person collaboration in the Bay Area with a globally distributed team and periodic offsites
  • Annual travel allowance to visit a country you've never been to, supporting personal growth and global perspective
  • Weekly stipend for meals, applicable to takeout or grocery delivery
  • Full medical coverage and generous paid leave to support health and well-being

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Bay Area

Our research principles

  • Prioritize precision and depth: Achieve technical excellence by tightly integrating algorithms, serving infrastructure, and user interface into a single, optimized system
  • Act with urgency and focus: Deliver breakthroughs by concentrating effort on high-impact research directions where innovation meets measurable outcomes
  • Measure what drives progress: Validate research through functional systems that enhance user capabilities, prioritizing real-world utility over publication volume

The role

  • Position is research-driven with a clear focus on creating tangible, real-world impact
  • Core innovation areas include system efficiency, gradient-free optimization, real-time learning, and interface co-design
  • Emerging capabilities in synthetic data generation now allow optimization of data spaces, making them dynamic and malleable
  • Synthetic data can be shaped to highlight underrepresented or previously inaccessible domains
  • Future intelligence systems must interact continuously with the environment, requiring researchers to focus on interaction dynamics
  • If these challenges align with your interests, we welcome your application

About us

  • Most artificial intelligence systems today lack adaptability and remain static after deployment
  • Our mission is to develop intelligence that updates and improves continuously in real time
  • We envision AI that is adaptable, personalized, and broadly accessible
  • Efficiency is central to scalability and equitable access, ensuring advancements benefit a wide population
  • We emphasize talent density by assembling a team of highly motivated, exceptional individuals
  • We seek innovators and builders ready to define the future of adaptive intelligence

Other

Applications are encouraged even if not all qualifications are met

About company
Adaption Labs

Adaption Labs is building a new era of efficient, adaptive AI that learns continuously and evolves for any industry, language, or specialization. The company challenges the current paradigm of monolithic, static AI systems by developing technology that adapts to users rather than requiring users to adapt to it.

They focus on creating intelligent systems that are not frozen in training data, emphasizing dynamic data shaping, continual learning, and adaptive interfaces. Their mission is to enable AI that works for people, not the other way around, by moving beyond brute-force scaling toward more responsive and flexible intelligence.

Adaption Labs offers adaptive data, adaptive intelligence, and adaptive interfaces as core innovations, aiming to redefine how humans interact with AI through on-the-fly learning and malleable systems.

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Posted 4 months ago