# Research Scientist - Company: [Simular]() - Location: Palo Alto · Singapore - Team: Research - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: October 10, 2025 ## Job description Where multiple locations are listed for this role, the position may be based in any of those locations, with priority determined according to the order of listing. **What you’ll do** As a Research Scientist at Simular, you will: * Shape the future of agentic AI by pioneering new research directions in planning, reinforcement learning, multimodal reasoning, grounding, human-agent. interaction, and alignment (e.g. reward modeling, automated task evaluation, AI safety). * Design and execute experiments end-to-end: from data collection and benchmarking, to model training and evaluation. * Develop new methodologies that push the boundaries of AI agent capabilities and reliabilities, advancing both academic and product impacts, in collaboration with world-class scientists and engineers. * Collaborate closely with engineers to integrate research prototypes into product * Publish and present results at top-tier conferences, contributing to the broader AI research community. * Advance the science hands-on through designing methods, building datasets, running experiments, and benchmarking against state of the art. **You might be a fit if** * PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent research experience. * Experience owning the complete research lifestyle: leading and executing a research program from ideation all the way to publication. * Expertise in one or more of (but not limited to) the following areas: + Pre-training, post-training, or fine-tuning LLMs/VLMs + Reinforcement learning and/or LLM-based agents + Computer vision and multimodal learning + Representation learning and embeddings. * Consistent publication record as first author in leading conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL, etc.). * Strong implementation skills in modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, etc.). * Demonstrated ability to run complex experiments, analyze results, and iterate quickly. * Passion for high-impact research with real-world applications. * Ambition and vision to redefine what’s possible in AI research and deployment. ## Apply [Apply on Simular]() Canonical job page: