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Research Scientist (Staff+)

Lightfield is hiring for Research Scientist (Staff+) in HQ: San Francisco. Staff level. First seen October 22, 2026, posted 2 times; open as of November 10, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Lightfield
Where
HQ: San Francisco
Level
Staff
First seen
October 22, 2026
Postings
2
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

WHO YOU ARE - You have 7+ years of applied research experience in ML or NLP, in industry or academia. - You have a PhD or MS in Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related field, or equivalent research experience. - You have a track record of research that shipped or was published: papers, open-source models, datasets or benchmarks. - You have deep hands-on experience with LLMs, including evaluation, agent design and retrieval. Post-training experience (SFT, RL, preference optimization) is a plus. - You are rigorous about experimental design and can tell a real improvement from noise. -…

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