Research Scientist, Multi-Agent Systems
- LocationNew York, NY or Boulder, CO
- Compensation$300K–$500KEarly-stage equity
- BenefitsComprehensive health, dental & vision, One Medical membership, daily lunch & gym membership
Research Scientist, Multi-Agent Systems
We're looking for a research scientist to study how systems of agents coordinate. You'll research how agents divide work, communicate, and share what they learn, and build the results into the orchestration layers Plasma runs on.
You've run experiments on LLM agents and want to see the results used by real teams. The role is both research and product: you'll publish what you find and ship it into Plasma.
What You'll Work On
Coordination: Study how agents split a large task, hand off work, and recover when one of them fails
Communication: Design and compare the ways agents talk to each other, building on Radio
Agent Design: Test how choices about memory, context, and model affect what a group of agents can do
Environments: Build the test environments for multi-agent experiments, where several agents share one long task
Publication: Write up results for the research community and for the people who run our systems
What We're Looking For
A research record in multi-agent systems, LLM agents, or a related field such as distributed AI or mechanism design, shown through papers, code, or shipped systems
Hands-on experience running experiments with LLMs and agent frameworks
Strong engineering: you write the code your experiments run on
Rigor about measurement: you check a result before you trust it
A PhD or equivalent research experience is a plus