OutSystems · 15 hours ago
Lead AI Researcher
San Francisco County, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expOutSystems is a global company focused on providing AI-powered low-code development platforms. They are seeking a Lead AI Researcher to lead the development of machine learning systems for enterprise AI agents, focusing on building and training models, optimizing production AI, and mentoring engineers.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data IntegrationDeveloper PlatformDeveloper ToolsDevOpsGenerative AIPaaSSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Own the full pipeline: architecture design → dataset engineering → distributed training → production deployment
Implement state-of-the-art techniques from papers—often before official implementations exist—translating math into working PyTorch code
Build experimentation infrastructure that enables rapid iteration on architectures, training regimes, and evaluation methods
Create orchestration loops that enable AI to reason across multi-file changes, invoke tools (compilers, test runners, debuggers), and recover from failures
Implement RL for code generation: execution-based rewards (RLVR), process supervision, reward models, and execution semantics alignment
Optimize for inference: quantization, distillation, pruning, and serving infrastructure—understanding quality/latency/cost tradeoffs
Design evaluation pipelines that catch regressions and measure what actually matters; build guardrails and monitoring for production
Define integration architecture: APIs, batching, caching, failure handling
Mentor engineers on ML fundamentals, debugging techniques, and the craft of building reliable systems
Stay current with the field—read papers, run experiments, share findings, separate signal from hype
Qualification
Required
5+ years building AI that shipped
Trained real models: Architecture design through deployment—not fine-tuning tutorials, actual model development
Deep ML fundamentals: Backprop, attention, loss functions, optimization—at a level where you can debug them
Production engineering: Expert Python, PyTorch fluency, distributed training, GPU programming, ML infrastructure at scale
Dataset intuition: You've built datasets and can spot data issues from model behavior—you know data quality beats model size
Agent architecture: Built systems that plan, act, and adapt—agentic loops, tool-calling, multi-step reasoning pipelines
Benefits
A company that is always growing, changing, and innovating.
Real career opportunities.
Work colleagues that are as smart, hard-working, and driven as you.
Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA.
We ask 'why' a lot.
Company
OutSystems
OutSystems is an AI-powered low-code platform that enables businesses to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$802.08MKey Investors
Kohlberg Kravis RobertsNorth Bridge Venture Partners & Growth EquityArmilar Venture Partners
2022-10-15Series G· $230M
2021-02-17Series E· $150M
2020-09-15Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Woodson Martin
CEO at OutSystems
Rui Pereira
Co-founder, Board Member
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