Applied AI Researcher

About Brandlight

Brandlight is the leading enterprise AI visibility platform, built to help the world’s leading brands understand, manage, and optimize how they appear across AI-driven search, commerce, and advertising.

As AI rapidly becomes a trillion-dollar marketing and distribution channel, Brandlight is defining the systems that decide what brands are surfaced, trusted, and chosen.

Join our team and help build the next generation of tools shaping the future of brand management in an AI-first world.

About the Role

This is a unique role at the intersection of classic machine learning, deep learning and state of the art LLMs and agentic workflows.

As an Applied AI Researcher at Brandlight, you’ll work at the frontier of how large language models are transforming marketing in the age of AI. You will design and develop novel methods to measure, analyze, and influence how LLMs perceive and represent brands, from brand visibility, content optimization and creation, ads and agentic commerce.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core algorithms and LLM pipelines for tasks like sentiment analysis, bias detection, content generation, agentic commerce, etc.

• Design and build comprehensive benchmarks (synthetic, adversarial, real-world) and conduct experiments, evaluating their effects when deployed in real-world systems.

• Prototype new models and systems, collaborate with engineering teams to integrate research outputs and deploy scalable, production-grade systems.

• Drive internal and external knowledge sharing: write research reports, blog posts, white papers, or conferences to position Brandlight as a thought leader in generative AI.

• Stay up to date with the state of the art in NLP, LLMs, generative models, agentic AI and new emerging tools and algorithms.

Requirements

• At least a B.Sc in Computer Science \ Information Systems \ Electrical engineering or related field with a focus on AI/ML/NLP.

• 5+ years of hands-on industry experience as ML \ AI researcher, data scientist or similar roles, writing production grade code and deploying ML \ DL based solutions at scale.

• Experience training ML models, fine tuning and deploying open source models.

• Proficient python developer, utilizes recent advancements in AI coding.

• Hands-on experience defining, architecting and deploying systems based on ML models, LLMs and AI agents.

• Ability and desire to work in a fast paced, demanding environment.

Big Advantage

• M.Sc \ Ph.D with relevant thesis or publications.

• Engineering background - developer \ engineer experience (military service included).

• Experience with MLOps and LLMOps tools and best practices.

• Experience with using CI/CD tools and working in cloud environment (GCP/AWS/Azure).

Why Join Us?

At Brandlight, you’ll build and shape a new category at the intersection of AI, marketing, and commerce.

We’re a fast-growing startup led by repeat entrepreneurs, world-class engineers, and marketing leaders, all driven to reinvent how brands are built, discovered, and chosen in the age of AI.