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Job Summary:
Mindlance is a pioneering force in AI innovation across the Insurance and CenterWell business segments. They are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to develop and evaluate autonomous agents capable of managing complex goals in dynamic environments, ensuring adherence to best practices in accountable AI for effective risk management.
Responsibilities:
• Architect goal setting and goal decomposition mechanisms for autonomous agents operating in uncertain or open-ended environments
• Design and implement dynamic planning systems (e.g., hierarchical planning, curriculum learning, scratchpad/self-refinement loops)
• Collaborate on memory, tool-use, and feedback-loop designs enabling multi-step, self-directed agent behavior
• Develop evaluation frameworks for alignment with human intent, consistency, progress against long-horizon objectives
• Prototype agents that interface with APIs, MCP servers, search engines, databases, or real-world actuators to pursue goals safely and efficiency
• Explore mechanisms to detect and mitigate goal misalignment, looping behavior, or undesirable emergent strategies
• Work across teams to integrate goal alignment with safety, alignment, and operational reliability mechanisms
Qualifications:
Required:
• Master's Degree and 4+ years of experience in research/ML engineering or an applied research scientist position preferably with a focus on developing production-ready AI solutions
• 2+ years of experience leading development of AI/ML systems
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data analysis/data mining tools.
• Experience with machine learning frameworks like Pytorch, Jax, LangChain, LangGraph or AutoGen
• Experience with high performance, large-scale ML systems
• Experience with language modeling with transformers
• Experience with symbolic planning, causal reasoning, and model-based RL
• Experience with large-scale ETL
Preferred:
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience shipping autonomous, or semi-autonomous agents in production or simulation
• Experience with LLM-based agents with scratchpad/self-reflection or hierarchical task decomposition
• Understanding of autonomy risk mitigation strategies, including off-switch protocols, or bounded rationality
Company:
Mindlance is a Staffing and Recruiting company which provides multi-vertical staffing services Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Union, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.