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# AI Researcher

- **Company:** Icon Clinical Research, Inc
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Open Web Application Security, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/4264849d-b5ce-40b9-96cc-91cd7e42fe33/senior-ai-researcher

## About the Role

* Direct work with at least one of: RL from verifier or reward signals, preference optimization (DPO/IPO/KTO), or supervised fine-tuning with synthetic data pipelines
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 * Experience with agentic LLM systems - tool use, multi-step reasoning, planning, or long-horizon execution
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 * Ability to design evaluation that measures real capability and avoids contamination or specification gaming
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 * Strong Python and PyTorch, with experience in distributed training at multi-GPU scale
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 * Clear technical writing - research memos, experiment writeups, papers, or equivalent, * Working knowledge of offensive security fundamentals (we'll teach you the rest if you bring strong ML depth)

## Description

We're hiring our first dedicated AI Researcher to advance the core models powering Ares. You'll work alongside our VP of AI Engineering and a small AI engineering team, with direct collaboration with our CEO - a researcher and practitioner with 26 years of offensive security experience, contributions to the OWASP API Security Top 10, and a permanent exhibit at The Mob Museum.


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