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SciPhi

SciPhi is building R2R, the most advanced retrieval system.

Founding AI Research Engineer

$125K - $250K / 2.00% - 4.00%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Owen Colegrove
Owen Colegrove
Founder

About the role

We're creating a position to push DeepSeek-R1-style breakthroughs
into advanced search and retrieval. Our goal: build an autonomous
agent that reasons across knowledge bases--leveraging the file
ingestion, vector search, graph construction, and sophisticated
retrieval flows in our open-source R2R platform.

What You'll Do

  * Prototype a reasoning-driven system combining R1 & Claude/Gemini/
    4o to navigate and interpret millions of documents.
  * Distill successful methods onto smaller models for efficient
    deployment.
  * Scale Up to power our next-gen system after demonstrating real
    performance gains.

Ideal candidates should have Ph.D.-level expertise or equivalent
experience in AI, machine learning, or related fields, with a passion
for reasoning, retrieval, and experimentation.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the heart of R2R into a
solution that truly "thinks" about the data it processes.

About SciPhi

SciPhi is building R2R, the most advanced retrieval system.

SciPhi
SciPhi
Founded:2023
Team Size:6
Location:San Francisco
 
Founders
Owen Colegrove
Owen Colegrove
Founder
  

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