Senior AI Researcher

Join an Australian AI research company building the future of intelligent agents

Your New Company
This is a rare opportunity to join an Australian-founded AI research company at a pivotal stage of growth. Backed by recent investment and led by globally recognised experts in artificial intelligence, the organisation is tackling some of the most complex challenges in the field, with a particular focus on intelligent agents, long-term memory, reasoning, planning, and next-generation machine learning systems. The company is assembling a world-class team of researchers and engineers who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and publishing work that shapes the future of the industry
Your New Role
As a Senior Research Scientist, you will operate as an independent researcher responsible for driving original research initiatives from ideation through to publication. Working closely with senior AI leaders, researchers, engineers, and PhD interns, you'll help define future research directions while contributing directly to breakthroughs in advanced machine learning and intelligent agent systems.This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge challenges across areas including:

• Agentic AI and long-term memory systems
• Reasoning and planning architectures
• Multimodal machine learning
• Simulation and evaluation frameworks
• Large-scale model training and adaptation
• Knowledge representation and continual learning

You'll be encouraged to develop your own research agenda, collaborate with leading academics and industry experts, publish at premier AI conferences, and play a key role in shaping the next generation of intelligent systems.
What You'll Need to Succeed

To succeed in this role, you'll be an accomplished researcher with a strong track record of advancing state-of-the-art machine learning or AI research.
You will ideally possess:

• A PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline.
• A proven publication record at leading AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, or equivalent.
• The ability to independently drive research from concept through to implementation and publication.
• Deep expertise in one or more areas including reasoning, memory systems, multimodal learning, foundation models, or large-scale model training.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Experience mentoring students, researchers, or technical teams will be highly regarded.
• Postdoctoral or equivalent independent research experience is advantageous.

What You'll Get in Return

• The opportunity to work on some of the hardest and most exciting problems in AI today.
• Direct collaboration with globally respected AI researchers.
• Freedom to pursue impactful, innovative research.
• A research-focused environment that values publication and scientific excellence.
• Fully remote working arrangements.
• A highly competitive compensation package.
• The ability to influence the future direction of next-generation intelligent agents and AI systems.
• A chance to join an organisation at a critical growth stage as it scales internationally.

What You Need to Do Now

If you're excited by the prospect of conducting world-class AI research and want to contribute to breakthroughs in intelligent agents, reasoning, memory, and multimodal systems, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now or contact Bradley Lucas on bradley.lucas@hays.com.au at Hays for a confidential discussion.

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