Principal Applied AI Researcher - Domain- Specific Models (Dublin, CA)

About us: Articul8 was born from a simple belief: GenAI should work for the enterprise, not the other way around. Our platform combines domain-specific models, autonomous agentic reasoning through ModelMesh(TM), reliable model evaluation through LLM-IQ(TM), and multimodal understanding to serve regulated industries including energy, semiconductor, finance, aerospace, and supply chain. Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, we bring together research, engineering, product, and domain expertise to deliver AI that meets the accuracy, explainability, and auditability standards that high-stakes environments demand. Job Description: Articul8 AI is seeking a Principal Research Scientist to define how we build, evaluate, and scale domain-specific models as a durable source of competitive advantage. You will lead research across the full model development lifecycle: domain data strategy, continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, post-training, evaluation methodology, and the strategic decisions that determine where Articul8 can create and sustain model superiority in the market. Responsibilities: Set company-level technical direction for domain-specific model strategy — define how Articul8 builds, evaluates, scales, and sustains model superiority across continued pre-training, fine-tuning, post-training, and release quality standards, leveraging massively parallel agentic AI systems to compress strategic exploration cycles from months to days Architect the agentic model development paradigm for the organization — design the agent-orchestrated research infrastructure (experiment orchestration, data pipeline automation, continuous evaluation, competitive benchmarking) that enables every researcher at Articul8 to operate at a fundamentally higher level of depth, breadth, and velocity than would be possible alone Go deep: push the frontier of domain-specific model science — lead research on model adaptation methodology, data curation strategies, post-training methods (prefere