About the Company
Metacognition is a neolab building the future of intelligent agents. We believe that these next agents will be able to update their memory on the fly for years or decades. Metacognition brings together leading researchers who have been at the forefront of developing the key tools needed for long-term memory such as continual learning, LLM adaptation and explicit knowledge representation.
The company has raised in a pre-seed round and we are now hiring across a range of technical roles as we scale our team and reach a number of inflection points in AI performance. If you want to work on some of the hardest and most interesting problems in AI, we want to hear from you.
Role Overview
The Senior Research Scientist is an independent, senior researcher who will contribute original ideas, lead research threads, and collaborate closely with the Chief Scientist, other researchers, and PhD interns. Research Scientists are expected to set their own research agenda in collaboration with the Chief Scientist and aligned with the company’s priority areas. They should be familiar with the latest research and and drive work through to publication.
Key Responsibilities
Research
- Define and pursue original research questions within the company’s priority areas (memory, reasoning, planning, data, simulation, multimodal AI).
- Publish at top AI venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, etc.).
- Collaborate with research scientists and ML engineers to develop and validate ideas.
- Engage with external academic collaborators and the broader AI research community.
Mentorship
- Mentor PhD interns and junior research scientists.
- Contribute to a rigorous and supportive research culture.
Requirements
Essential
- PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, or a related field.
- Strong publication record at top AI venues.
- Demonstrated ability to independently drive research from idea to publication.
- Deep technical expertise in at least one of: reasoning, memory, multimodal learning, or large-scale model training.
Preferred
- Postdoctoral experience or equivalent independent research experience.
- Experience mentoring students or junior researchers.