Dataminr · 3 months ago
Senior Research Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $234K/yrDataminr is a mission-driven team focused on real-time event detection and AI innovation. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will tackle challenging AI problems and develop solutions for the company's real-time alerting platform, contributing to product advancements and research publications.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologyRisk ManagementSoftware
Responsibilities
Perform research to advance the state of the art and solve specific problems at scale in one or more of the following areas: Natural Language Processing, Machine and Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs
Work closely with a diverse, interdisciplinary team to deliver value to customers (existing and new products)
Contribute to the research community via publications in top tier venues, participation in program committees, etc
Excel in placing a human-centered focus on the work (context, end-user impact, etc), finding solutions that work in practice and have significant impact
Productionize and ship research into Dataminr’s products, and thus to its users worldwide
Senior candidates are expected to lead technical areas and/or people
Qualification
Required
Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field
Experience in one or more of the following topics: AI for cyber security, LLMs, agentic AI, generation, machine translation, summarization, topic detection & tracking, text classification, knowledge extraction/representation/management, trending topic detection, search, machine learning and deep learning, etc
Outstanding publication record (IEEE, AAAI, NeurIPS, ACL, TACL, EMNLP, WWW, etc.)
Demonstrated ability to work independently, set up experiments and demonstrate progress through principled use of metrics
Proficiency in Python and experience with relevant AI/ML libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers. Experience with LLM serving technologies such as vLLM is a plus
Professional experience in industry (requirement varies depending on level; recent graduates must have had relevant internships)
Benefits
Discretionary bonus
Company equity
Flexible work arrangements
Generous PTO and sick leave
Company
Dataminr
Dataminr is a real-time AI platform that detects early signs of high-impact events and emerging risks.
Founded in 2009
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.24BKey Investors
Fidelity
2025-04-24Convertible Note· $100M
2025-03-19Convertible Note· $85M
2024-04-07Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Theodore Bailey
Founder and CEO, Chairman
Jeffrey Kinsey
Co-Founder and CTO
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