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Principal Applied Scientist

Robots and Pencils is hiring for Principal Applied Scientist in US Remote. Remote, Staff level. First seen November 13, 2026; open as of November 13, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Robots and Pencils
Where
US Remote
Arrangement
Remote
Level
Staff
First seen
November 13, 2026
Listed via
Greenhouse

What the posting says

We're looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the design and build of an evaluation framework for an enterprise planner-based agent. You will work directly with the client's engineering team to benchmark their agent across planner models, executor LLMs and inference optimization levers. Every proposed change, whether a model upgrade, a harness change or a routing strategy, becomes a controlled, statistically sound experiment with a measurable dollar outcome. This is a research-heavy, customer-facing role with a significant build component. You will own both the experimental method…

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