Job Description: Principal Research Scientist – Advanced Foundations & Frontier Intelligence
Company: CoRover AI | BharatGPT (AI with purpose and trust)
Location: Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai - India; London - UK; Silicon Valley - US
Work Mode: Hybrid
Level: PhD Required
Position Overview
We are looking for a visionary Principal Research Scientist to do core algorithmic breakthroughs at the absolute frontier of artificial intelligence.
You will design next-generation foundation architectures, continuous learning systems, and multi-modal alignment protocols aimed at building scalable, personalized, and efficient intelligence.
This role is for a premier researcher who wants to move AI beyond static, internet-trained models toward autonomous, adaptive, and resource-efficient systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Pioneer Next-Gen AI Foundations: Design architectures for emergent reasoning, long-horizon planning, and cognitive synthesis across distributed intelligence nodes
- Develop Continuous Persona Alignment: Build high-fidelity, real-time learning frameworks that capture human traits, speech patterns, and decision-making logic without catastrophic forgetting
- Human-Centric Conversational AI: Research dialogue systems that understand intent, emotion, and context for natural human-AI interaction
- Architect Agentic AI Systems: Formulate robust, secure AI-to-AI communication protocols for autonomous negotiation and workflow execution
- Standardized Agent Interfaces: Design MCP and API layers for each model to enable secure tool-use, function calling, and AI-to-AI communication
- Agentic Secure RAG: Build privacy-preserving retrieval systems using FHE, MPC, TEE for secure and sovereign memory
- Decentralized Data Sovereignty: Integrate cryptographic and federated learning mechanisms that maximize user data ownership
- Optimize for Edge & Resource-Constrained Hardware: Compile and compress multi-modal workloads for efficient execution on low-power devices. Focus on SLMs and optimized models
- Represent CoRover: Serve as a technical ambassador for CoRover at international tech/AI conferences and research forums. Build academic and industry partnerships
- IP Leadership: File full patents and contribute to the company's IP portfolio. Translate research into defensible IP
- Research to Impact: Take research from concept to production at scale
Required Qualifications
- Education: Ph.D. Required in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a highly quantitative field from a premier institution
- Frontier Systems Focus: Proven research in foundation models, SLMs, multi-modal architectures, or personalized AI
- •Agentic Frameworks: Deep expertise in lifelong learning, multi-agent coordination, and high-fidelity memory retrieval
- Human-Centric AI: Experience in conversational AI, persona modeling, and alignment
- Security & Privacy: Research background in privacy-preserving ML, secure RAG, FHE, MPC, or confidential computing
- Hands-on Execution: Highly hands-on in PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX. Capable of training and scaling models
- Publication Record: First-author publications in top-tier international research venues
- Patents: Should have patents. Preferably granted or filed in AI/ML
Preferred Skills
- SLMs & Optimization: Expertise in model compression, quantization INT4/INT8, FlashAttention, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, TensorFlow Lite, XLA, JAX, Pathways, speculative decoding, edge inference
- Hardware Accelerators: Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, Google TPUs, and mobile/edge NPUs
- Energy Efficient AI: Research in reducing compute, memory, and energy for scalable deployment
- Conversational Video Pipelines: Real-time digital twins, talking-head generation, or video synthesis
- Distributed Systems: DeepSpeed, FSDP, ZeRO, HPC, GPU clusters, Kubernetes
- Confidential Computing: Hardware security, differential privacy, decentralized protocols
- Research Leadership: Track record of presenting research at international forums
Why Join CoRover
- AI with purpose and trust: Build technology that serves humanity
- Define the future of personalized and efficient AI from day 0
- Work on fundamental research with global-scale impact
- Access state-of-the-art research compute
- Publish, patent, and present at leading research forums
- Generous ESOP for long-term alignment
- Mission: Build the ULM - Universal Language Model from Bharat
This is not just product engineering role. This is fundamental research with global scale.
To Apply:
Send CV + Google Scholar + 3 best publications + Patent List to [Confidential Information]
- Subject: PhD - Principal Research Scientist - [Your Name]
