AI Research Engineer

🕒 June 16

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧠 AI Research Scientist

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Prolific

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Prolific is a platform that facilitates fast and high-quality data collection by connecting researchers with participants, including AI taskers. Researchers can launch tasks, surveys, and experiments and receive responses from a global community of over 200,000 active participants within hours. Prolific prides itself on providing accurate and detailed data while ensuring that participants are fairly rewarded for their contributions. The platform is trusted by leading academics and organizations for its flexibility, simplicity, and rapid project execution.

📋 Description

• Conduct innovative research in AI evaluation methodologies, alignment techniques, and synthetic data generation • Bridge cutting-edge AI research and practical applications, translating research insights into products and services • Write papers contributing to the wider AI community • Lead independent research projects • Design and implement novel human-data-grounded evaluation frameworks for LLMs and agent systems • Contribute through publications and open-source contributions • Design and conduct rigorous experiments on AI models and systems • Develop scalable frameworks for systematic evaluation of model behaviours and capabilities • Create tools and frameworks that transform research insights into practical applications • Build infrastructure for large-scale research experiments when needed • Apply model fine-tuning, optimization, distillation, and ML engineering practices • Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and product teams • Mentor team members on advanced AI concepts and emerging research directions • Communicate complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of engineering experience with significant AI/ML focus • Demonstrated research experience through publications, open-source contributions, or impactful projects • Strong engineering fundamentals and experience implementing AI systems in production environments • Deep knowledge of LLM evaluation methodologies, alignment techniques, and model optimization approaches • Experience with model fine-tuning, adapters, quantization, and distillation frameworks • Ability to define and pursue research directions independently • Excellent understanding of current challenges in AI safety, reliability, and alignment • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex research concepts clearly • Passion for staying current with the rapidly evolving AI research landscape

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Benefits • Remote working • Access to Prolific’s unique human data platform • Opportunities for groundbreaking research • Impactful, mission-driven culture