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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Applied AI Researcher - **Company:** Electronic Arts Inc - **Location:** Kirkland, WA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $133,100.0 - $178,400.0 - **Contract:** Franchise - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Computer Programming, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Recommender Systems, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** June 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=089375689241c1db ## About the Role Do you have experience in Translational research?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * PhD or Master's in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field. * 7+ years of experience conducting advanced machine learning research and development with a track record of translating cutting-edge research into impactful products or platforms. * Strong publication record in leading AI conferences or journals (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, AAAI, or equivalent). * Deep expertise in deep learning fundamentals, optimization, representation learning, and neural network architectures. * Strong programming skills in Python and experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow. * Experience in training and evaluating large-scale machine learning models on distributed compute infrastructure and GPU-accelerated computing environments, * Expertise in developing and training diffusion models, latent diffusion models, or related generative architectures. * Experience fine-tuning foundation models using LoRA, QLoRA, adapters, PEFT techniques, RLHF, DPO, or similar approaches. * Experience developing generative AI systems for image, video, audio, 3D, or other creative content domains. ## Description We are seeking a Senior AI/ML Research Scientist to advance the next generation of Generative AI capabilities across creative content generation and foundation models. This role will focus on developing, adapting, and optimizing state-of-the-art AI models, including diffusion models, LLMs, multimodal architectures, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). You will drive research and development efforts and model architectures that enable scalable, high-quality content generation. The ideal candidate combines deep scientific expertise with hands-on experience building and training large-scale machine learning systems. Working closely with cross-functional teams of engineers, product leaders, and domain experts, you will help define the organization's AI strategy and deliver breakthrough capabilities that leverage advances in GenAI and Deep Learning. What You'll Do * Lead research and development of state-of-the-art generative AI systems, including diffusion models, latent diffusion architectures, and multimodal foundation models. * Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into model requirements. 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