Researcher, Strategic Research

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 teams. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a passionate Applied Research Scientist to join our Strategic Research team. ​​The Strategic Research team develops novel AI algorithms bespoke to Grammarly's product offerings, informs critical decisions, explores novel research spaces, uncovers new capabilities, and paves the way for new AI-powered features.  The team collaborates with industry and academia to advance the company's research and development efforts.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As a member of the strategic research team, you will:

• Work alongside a group of top-notch researchers to design and implement SoTA DL and NLP algorithms to solve challenging research problems that are the core of  Grammarly’s AI features.
• Build prototypes to validate research ideas, and work with product and engineering teams to move your research to products. 
• Leverage Grammarly’s unique datasets and infrastructure to identify and implement new research directions that are strategically important to Grammarly.
• Publish research results and participate in conferences and workshops.

Qualifications

• Has a PhD degree or a Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.
• Has solid theoretical and practical knowledge of machine learning, with a focus on natural language processing. 
• Has experience developing novel deep learning algorithms and training LLMs.
• Has a proven track record in independently conducting SoTA AI research, evidenced by publishing at top-tiered conferences and/or leading impactful industry research projects.
• Is proficient with Python and familiar with ML frameworks and tools, such as PyTorch, JAX, HuggingFace, and Langchain.
• Keeps abreast of the most recent developments in AI and is a lifelong learner.
• Is passionate about contributing to AI research breakthroughs that can improve the communication for everyone.
• Enjoys collaborating with other researchers and engineers to bring your research ideas to products.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time 
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Zone 1: $178,000 – $403,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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