troveo - Senior Researcher

• Monitor and synthesize trends across our industry, AI and machine learning research, foundation models, agents, evaluation techniques, and data enrichment methods. • Tinker with emerging models, tools, datasets, and techniques to understand their practical potential. Build lightweight prototypes, run experiments, and explore unconventional combinations to turn interesting ideas into evidence. • Identify high-leverage opportunities to enrich or restructure our existing assets (internal and external), including multimodal and audiovisual sources as well as approaches for generating high-quality training corpora that could improve model performance, product features, or decision-making. • Translate research into actionable outputs: opportunity briefs, experiment proposals, success criteria, and recommendations on what to explore next. • Own and advance a research program around priority data opportunity areas, including designing and running experiments and proof-of-concepts to validate hypotheses and de-risk ideas. • Partner with product, prototypers, engineers by providing well-scoped ideas and serving as a research advisor. • Maintain living knowledge bases and briefings that keep the broader team informed. • Evaluate emerging techniques and papers for relevance in our context. • Contribute the research perspective to prioritization and longer-term opportunity discussions. • Support business operations in ad hoc requests. • Ideal Background • 5+ years of relevant experience in applied research or machine learning research. • Strong tinkerer’s mindset: enjoys getting hands-on with new models, APIs, datasets, tools, and techniques, and is comfortable learning by building and experimenting. • Deep familiarity with modern paradigms including large language models, multimodal models, retrieval-augmented generation, agent architectures, fine-tuning, model distillation, and evaluation frameworks. • Clear communication of research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.