Research Scientist - AI Incubation

Maven is a company focused on AI innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Research Scientist to contribute to advanced applied AI research, particularly in areas such as LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, and federated AI, to develop scalable systems for Zoom's AI Companion.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting frontier research in LLM post-training, reinforcement learning, and federated AI to achieve state-of-the-art reasoning, personalization, and reliability
• Developing and implementing evaluation and benchmarking frameworks for model performance, safety, and user experience across distributed environments
• Contributing to model architectures, fine-tuning strategies, and reinforcement learning pipelines across Zoom's federated AI ecosystem
• Partnering with product and infra teams to translate research prototypes into scalable, production-grade AI systems that leverage edge and cloud collaboration
• Participating in a culture of scientific rigor, creativity, and rapid experimentation
• Exploring emerging AI paradigms—from agentic reasoning and multimodal fusion to self-improving federated systems—to continuously advance Zoom's AI frontier