TL;DR

The bad

⚡️ We hire slow and fire fast
😪 No flashy merch or trips
👷🏻 Hard work
✋🏻 No stock (usually)
🗣️ English or Spanish required
👶🏻 No kindergarten standards

The good

🧑🏻‍🔬 AI | deep tech | multimedia | social
🌎 Fully remote
💵 Above market rate salary
⬆️ Not shy to promote
🍰 BIG cash bonuses
🔁 Rolling interviews
👴🏻 No condescending treatment

Who we are

😼 We are a small but very competitive startup.
We are incredibly visionary. Decently competent. Reasonably funded. Subpar at sticking to deadlines.

• Cool af: What we are building and how we are doing it are one for the history books.
• Chill af: Work remotely, manage your own time, skip work when you need to.
• 0% BS: 0% political behaviour, 0% bureaucracy, 0% pedantry, 0% ass-kissing.
• Give & Take: We won’t take a bullet for you but we’ll never throw you under the bus either.
• Not a: Family. But not a toxic elite team either. Just… a competitive yet reliable company.

The role

💼 No fixed role or rank.
We offer you a role as big as you can handle. If you’re a tenured researcher, we’ll let you lead. If you’re early-career, we’ll help you grow.

• Make the first move: Pitch your research strengths, desired level, and compensation.
• Expect negotiation: We’ll match on scope and budget.
• Prove your worth: Publish, prototype, or present why you’re the right person.

What you’ll do

🧠 Make us super intelligent. Just that.
Leverage Rkive AI’s innovations and strategy to pioneer models and techniques, and position us as the leader in multimodal, reasoning and applied AI. Easy peasy!

• Multi-agent architectures: design, train and evaluate collaborative AI agents
• Embedding models & techniques: develop and benchmark novel vector representations
• Vector search & reranking: research efficient nearest-neighbour and relevance algorithms
• Latent space fusion: integrate visual, audio and textual embeddings into unified models
• Combined reinforcement learning: explore hybrid training regimes for adaptive AI

How you’ll do it

🧠 Work smarter, not harder.
Automate, automate, automate. Do so with good taste, common sense and care.

• GPT: Ask our most senior and wisest advisor.
• Plan ahead: Plan first (even for yourself) → confirm when necessary → execute methodically.
• Be strategic: Not dogmatic. Not experimental. Choose results, find how to get them.
• Guidance: Collaborate directly with the founder and exec advisors.
• Trends & best practices: Stay up-to-date with the latest AI research and papers…
• Notion: Organise info with our Notion templates.
• Feedback: Iterate from metrics, insights, and team reviews.
• Other tools: Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hugging Face, Ray, Pinecone/OpenAISearch/FAISS/Weaviate, Airflow/Prefect, W&B/MLflow, Optuna...

Who you are

🎓 PhD required: You must hold your doctoral degree by January 2026.
💍 We want true love, not a marriage of convenience.
We don’t care about 10+ years of experience—just your impact.

• PhD (by Jan 2026) in CS, AI, ML or related.
• A well paid hobby: You’d do this for free because you love discovery, it just happens to be profitable.
• Avid learner: You devour papers, code, and new frameworks.
• Curious: You dig behind the scenes to push boundaries.
• Comfortable with new stuff: You thrive in ambiguity and rapid change.
• Adventurous: You hack novel approaches for the thrill of research.
• Assertive: You pitch bold ideas and defend them clearly.
• Analytical: You excel at modeling, experiments, and interpreting results.

When

🏡 Join in 90+ days, stay forever.
We are looking for a long-term relationship, not short-term fun.

• Rolling interviews: We interview (and hire) as CVs arrive. First come first served.
• Start: As early as Oct 1st 2025 & as late as Jan 1st 2026.
• Bonus: Performance-based cash bonuses.

What

👀 Show us something worth seeing.
But most importantly, show us YOU. A perfect CV will land you an interview, not a role.

• CV: Keep it readable and impact-focused.
• Portfolio: Relevant papers, code repos, research prototypes.
• Recommendations: From advisors, co-authors, or peers… your mom?
• Cover letter: Tell us why Rkive AI is your next research home!

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