Senior Research Scientist (Architectures Research)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Research Scientist (Architectures Research) based in Portugal. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will conduct frontier research focused on developing more capable, efficient and adaptable AI model architectures. You will investigate how models can attend, remember, reason and adapt more effectively while reducing the computational cost of training and inference. The role combines fundamental research with practical experimentation at meaningful model scales. You will formulate original research questions, design rigorous experiments and translate promising ideas into working implementations. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams and contribute to open-source models, methods and tools. As a senior member of the research team, you will also mentor researchers and help shape the broader research direction. This is an opportunity to work in a fast-moving, international AI environment where your research can directly influence the next generation of AI systems.