Founding Applied Research Engineer
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via Ashby
About this role
WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS
Foundation models are commoditizing. Defensibility comes from specialized models, proprietary training signals, and evaluation ownership. Every applied AI company we benchmark against like Decagon, Harvey, Sierra, Cursor has already moved. The window to claim frontier applied AI for revenue is closing in the next few months.
Rox is in market. We run agents against enterprise data at scale, every day. We see exactly where research meets production and where the data is dirty, state is changing, and being wrong costs (a lot of) money.
The Applied Research team exists to close that gap permanently.
WHAT THIS TEAM WORKS ON
Four problems we care about right now:
Cost-efficient inference for Clever Columns.…
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