Senior Applied AI Researcher
senior
via Ashby
About this role
As a Senior Applied AI Researcher at Tavily, you will lead the exploration and deployment of cutting-edge techniques across agentic workflows, web infrastructure, and information retrieval, while shaping the technical direction of one of the most foundational layers in the agent stack.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong research intuition with engineering excellence, and is excited to drive both innovation and execution in a fast-moving environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Push search quality beyond SOTA.
- Lead research at the frontier of information retrieval and model fine-tuning, shipping systems that power real-world agents.
- Design and lead development of internal/public benchmarks.…
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