Applied Research Scientist

📋 Description

• • Drive the next wave of AI innovation at Grammarly, the trusted assistant for 40 million users and 50,000 organizations, by turning cutting-edge research into production-ready features that help people communicate with clarity and confidence every day.
• • Join a distributed team of world-class researchers and engineers who ship improvements to a system that processes billions of words monthly, influencing how Atlassian, Databricks, Zoom, and countless other companies write, collaborate, and make decisions.
• • Own end-to-end research projects—from framing the problem and curating large-scale datasets to designing novel architectures, running rigorous offline and online experiments, and partnering with product and engineering to deploy models that reach users within weeks, not quarters.
• • Push the boundaries of large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, personalization, and responsible AI to create experiences that feel magically helpful yet respect user privacy and uphold Grammarly’s high ethical standards.
• • Collaborate across time zones with linguists, designers, product managers, and customer-facing teams to translate real-world pain points into research questions, ensuring every experiment ties directly to measurable gains in user engagement, writing quality, or productivity.
• • Contribute to Grammarly’s vibrant research culture by publishing at top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, EMNLP), open-sourcing tools and datasets, mentoring interns, and leading internal reading groups that keep the entire company at the forefront of AI advances.
• • Leverage a modern MLOps stack—built on Kubernetes, Ray, and cloud-native services—to train and evaluate models on hundreds of GPUs, automate hyper-parameter sweeps, and monitor drift in production, all while maintaining strict data-security controls.
• • Influence product strategy by translating experimental results into clear narratives for executives, helping decide which bets to double down on and which to sunset, ensuring Grammarly stays ahead of competitors and continues to earn user trust.
• • Champion responsible AI practices by conducting fairness audits, stress-testing edge cases, and partnering with legal and policy teams to anticipate regulatory changes, making Grammarly a model for ethical AI deployment at scale.
• • Enjoy the freedom of remote work with flexible hours, quarterly in-person summits, and a stipend for your ideal home-office setup, all while staying connected through Slack, Zoom, and virtual social events that keep the team tight-knit and energized.