Strativ Group is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join their team in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role involves leading foundational work on large-scale models that will define how AI is applied to drug discovery.
About the Role
As a Senior Research Scientist, you will be responsible for the research and development of foundation models, including model architectures, pretraining objectives, and scaling strategies. You will work on representation learning and generalization at scale, translating frontier research into core systems, and setting long-term research bets alongside the founding team.
About You
Required:
PhD in Machine Learning, AI, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a closely related field.
Proven experience working on foundation models / LLMs / large-scale representation learning.
Track record of exceptional research output (top conferences, top industrial labs, or equivalent impact).
Strong theoretical intuition combined with large-scale execution.
Comfort operating with ambiguity at the research frontier.
Preferred:
Experience in elite research labs such as FAIR, DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, or Mistral.
Benefits
Top-of-market compensation (salary, bonus, and significant early equity).
Founders with deep frontier research credibility.
Serious compute, minimal process, maximal research freedom.
Early-stage leverage: your work becomes the company’s foundation.
A chance to push foundation models into genuinely new territory.
Strativ Group
We are a multi award-winning team that does talent solutions. We live for innovation and work with ambitious businesses that make the world a better and safer place.
Company Size: 51-200 employeesStaffing and Recruiting