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Weekday AI

Research Scientist, Applied AI

India
Level
Senior
Work type
Remote · India only

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 21 October 2026.

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About the role

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 9000000 - Rs 10000000 (ie INR 90 - 100 LPA)

Min Experience: 5+ years
Location: Remote (India)
JobType: full-time

About the Role

Build the core agent behaviour behind a revenue-focused AI agent, from the agent harness and evals to fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, and take hard research problems from hypothesis to production.

Requirements

  • Key Responsibilities
  • Own and advance the agent harness: the core loop, tools, environment, guardrails, and model behaviour that power the agent.
  • Improve how the agent selects tools, builds context, coordinates across sub-agents, and handles long, multi-step tasks, through systematic experimentation.
  • Drive model selection across tasks, balancing answer quality, latency, and cost.
  • Design and build evaluations for complex revenue tasks such as deal health, risk, and pipeline questions, including benchmarks, regression detection, and automated eval pipelines.
  • Build eval datasets and grading methods for tasks that have no clean ground truth.
  • Build scoring and prediction models, such as deal health scores from call transcripts and emails, cross-deal pattern mining, and explainable risk signals.
  • Lead fine-tuning work as the platform moves from harness-heavy work into deeper model training.
  • Research and design reinforcement learning (RL) approaches that improve agent behaviour.
  • Improve context engineering and data quality through entity resolution, information extraction, and knowledge and context graphs.
  • Own ambiguous research problems end-to-end: form hypotheses, design experiments, build the training, eval, and grading infrastructure, and ship results to production.
  • Work closely with the US-based Head of AI and the applied AI team in India.
  • Qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in applied AI research or applied science, at a senior level.
  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative discipline.
  • Hands-on experience building and improving agentic systems and agent harnesses, including tool use, multi-step reasoning, and context management.
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs or large-scale deep learning systems, including training, fine-tuning, and RLHF.
  • A clear understanding of why models behave the way they do, not only how to use them.
  • Experience designing eval datasets or frameworks, especially for tasks without clean ground truth.
  • Proven ability to scope and drive ambiguous research with minimal guidance.
  • Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals are preferred.
  • Comfortable working with a US-based leadership team across time zones.
  • Benefits & Perks
  • Competitive salary and equity at Series A, ahead of the next funding round.
  • A remote role, with the team meeting in person in Bangalore.
  • Meaningful scope from day one: you will own core agent capabilities, not just support them.
  • Direct work with the Head of AI and a tight feedback loop with founders and product.
  • A sharp, low-ego team that moves fast and communicates directly.
  • A chance to shape an AI-first product at a pivotal stage, as it moves from harness work into fine-tuning and RL.

Must-have skills

Agentic Systems, Agent Harness Design, model finetuning

Good-to-have skills

LLM, Applied AI, AI research

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Deep Learning

Rare in Weekday AI's other 299 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

LLM

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Compared with Weekday AI's other open jobs.

The team: Weekday's Client via platform HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 231 open in Weekday's Client via platform. 115 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in September: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (79 of 231), CI/CD (64 of 231), SQL (63 of 231), AWS (59 of 231), Azure (49 of 231), LLM (42 of 231), REST (41 of 231)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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