Senior Research Scientist (NLP, LLM, GenAI) jobs in United States
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Dataminr · 20 hours ago

Senior Research Scientist (NLP, LLM, GenAI)

Dataminr is a mission-driven company that leverages AI to provide real-time intelligence solutions. The Senior Research Scientist role involves tackling complex AI challenges, particularly in Natural Language Processing and Generative AI, while contributing to product development and advancing research in the field.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote
Hiring Manager
Boris Manakhimov
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Responsibilities

Perform research to advance the state of the art and solve specific problems at scale in one or more of the following areas: Agentic AI, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Time-Series Modeling, Machine and Deep Learning, Entities Recognition and Alignment, Information Extraction, and 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

Natural Language ProcessingLarge Language ModelsMachine LearningDeep LearningPythonPyTorchHugging Face TransformersKnowledge GraphsIndependent ResearchTechnical Writing

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, CVPR, 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, Hugging Face Transformers, and LangGraph
Experience with LLM serving technologies such as vLLM is a plus

Benefits

Discretionary bonus
Company equity
Flexible work arrangements
Generous PTO and sick leave

Company

Dataminr

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Dataminr is a real-time AI platform that detects early signs of high-impact events and emerging risks.

H1B Sponsorship

Dataminr has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (8)
2024 (14)
2023 (11)
2022 (25)
2021 (21)
2020 (15)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.24B
Key Investors
Fidelity
2025-04-24Convertible Note· $100M
2025-03-19Convertible Note· $85M
2024-04-07Secondary Market

Leadership Team

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Theodore Bailey
Founder and CEO, Chairman
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Jeffrey Kinsey
Co-Founder and CTO
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