Applied AI Scientist

Seattle, WA Open
Cypress HCM is looking for Applied AI Scientist in Seattle, WA. This local job opportunity with ID 3872292819 is live since 2026-10-06 14:41:50.

Job Description
AI Applied Scientist

Location: Seattle, WA (onsite)

Employees: >200 | Team Size: 10

Industry: Technology

Reports To: CTO

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Applied AI Scientist to help drive the next generation of intelligent machine learning solutions. This individual will play a key role in researching, designing, and deploying advanced AI capabilities with an emphasis on generative AI, autonomous agent architecture, large language models (LLMs), and deep learning.

Most Important Responsibilities

  • Research, design, and implement advanced machine learning models focused on generative AI, autonomous AI agents, and deep learning technologies.
  • Develop production-ready AI systems utilizing LLNs, tool integrations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), planning workflows, and multi-step reasoning capabilities.
  • Build scalable AI solutions that support identity intelligence, fraud detection, risk analytics, search optimization, and related predictive applications.
  • Partner with software engineers, machine learning engineers, product managers, and technical stakeholders to define requirements and deliver high-impact AI capabilities.
  • Design and optimize transformer-based architectures, graph-based learning models, and modern information retrieval techniques.
  • Train, fine-tune, and customize foundation models for specialized business use cases when commercially available models do not meet performance expectations.
  • Analyze large, complex datasets to uncover insights, improve prediction accuracy, and enhance machine learning performance.
  • Evaluate emerging AI research and rapidly prototype new techniques for practical production use.
  • Contribute to the architecture, scalability, monitoring, and continuous improvement of enterprise AI platforms.
  • Present technical findings, research outcomes, and implementation strategies to engineering leadership and cross-functional teams.
  • Mentor junior scientists and contribute to technical best practices across the AI organization.

What you can bring to the table to impact this role, team, and organization:

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a closely related discipline. Equivalent professional experience with demonstrated technical expertise may also be considered.
  • 3-6+ years of industry experience developing applied AI or machine learning solutions.
  • Demonstrated success delivering AI-powered applications from concept through production deployment.
  • Strong programming experience with Python and/or C++.
  • Hands-on expertise with modern machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
  • Deep understanding of transformer architectures, neural networks, generative IA, and natural language processing.
  • Experience developing AI applications capable of operating reliability at enterprise scale.

Compensation: $200K - $300K (compensation varies depending on experience & level)

Required Skills