Research Engineer, AI (Entry-Level)

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Orbisoperations The Research Engineer, AI (Entry-Level) at Orbisoperations supports applied AI research by reproducing baselines, building datasets, running experiments, and writing up results. The role involves working alongside senior engineers and occasional travel.

Responsibilities

Reproduce baselines and published methods, and document precisely where your results diverge from what was reported.
Build and maintain evaluation datasets and harnesses, including cases that capture known failure modes.
Run experiments designed with senior research engineers, keeping records complete enough that someone else can rerun them.
Perform error analysis — characterize what the system got wrong and why, and report it without smoothing it over.
Implement well-scoped prototype components with design direction and code review from senior engineers.
Summarize relevant literature and open-source work, and explain how it bears on the question at hand.
Write up results, negative results included, and present them in team research reviews.
Travel occasionally, up to 10%, for conferences, training, and team collaboration.

Qualification

0-2 years of professional experienceIntellectual honesty about resultsWillingness to travel occasionallyResearch experience from a thesisExposure to graph databasesInterest in OSINTPhysical Requirements

Required

0-2 years of professional experience
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field, or equivalent demonstrated ability
Solid programming fundamentals in Python, with code you can walk us through and defend
Working understanding of machine learning and LLM fundamentals — evaluation basics, prompting, embeddings, and retrieval — from coursework, projects, internships, or professional work
Ability to read a technical paper and explain what it claims, how it was evaluated, and where it might not hold
Intellectual honesty about results, including the ones that undercut a hypothesis you liked
Willingness to travel occasionally, up to 10%
Orbis complies with all applicable equal opportunity and non-discrimination laws in every jurisdiction in which we operate. Reasonable accommodation is available to applicants and employees with disabilities upon request.

Preferred

Research experience from a thesis, lab, internship, or open-source project
Hands-on project experience with retrieval-augmented generation, agent frameworks, or fine-tuning
Exposure to graph databases, ontologies, or information extraction
Experience with experiment tracking and evaluation tooling such as notebooks, dataset construction, or scoring pipelines
Exposure to containerized environments (Docker) and cloud or GPU compute
Interest in OSINT, intelligence, or investigative research workflows
Physical Requirements
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Benefits

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