Principal Research Scientist Advanced Foundations & Frontier Intelligence

Job Description: Principal Research Scientist Advanced Foundations & Frontier Intelligence Company: CoRover AI | BharatGPT (AI with purpose and trust) Location: Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai - India; London - UK; Silicon Valley - US Work Mode: Hybrid Level: PhD Required Position Overview We are looking for a visionary Principal Research Scientist to do core algorithmic breakthroughs at the absolute frontier of artificial intelligence. You will design next-generation foundation architectures, continuous learning systems, and multi-modal alignment protocols aimed at building scalable, personalized, and efficient intelligence. This role is for a premier researcher who wants to move AI beyond static, internet-trained models toward autonomous, adaptive, and resource-efficient systems. Key Responsibilities Pioneer Next-Gen AI Foundations: Design architectures for emergent reasoning, long-horizon planning, and cognitive synthesis across distributed intelligence nodesDevelop Continuous Persona Alignment: Build high-fidelity, real-time learning frameworks that capture human traits, speech patterns, and decision-making logic without catastrophic forgettingHuman-Centric Conversational AI: Research dialogue systems that understand intent, emotion, and context for natural human-AI interactionArchitect Agentic AI Systems: Formulate robust, secure AI-to-AI communication protocols for autonomous negotiation and workflow executionStandardized Agent Interfaces: Design MCP and API layers for each model to enable secure tool-use, function calling, and AI-to-AI communicationAgentic Secure RAG: Build privacy-preserving retrieval systems using FHE, MPC, TEE for secure and sovereign memoryDecentralized Data Sovereignty: Integrate cryptographic and federated learning mechanisms that maximize user data ownershipOptimize for Edge & Resource-Constrained Hardware: Compile and compress multi-modal workloads for efficient execution on low-power devices. Focus on SLMs and optimized modelsRepresent CoRover: Serve as a technical ambassador for CoRover at international tech/AI conferences and research forums. Build academic and industry partnershipsIP Leadership: File full patents and contribute to the companys IP portfolio. Translate research into defensible IPResearch to Impact: Take research from concept to production at scale Required Qualifications Education: Ph.D. Required in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a highly quantitative field from a premier institutionFrontier Systems Focus: Proven research in foundation models, SLMs, multi-modal architectures, or personalized AIAgentic Frameworks: Deep expertise in lifelong learning, multi-agent coordination, and high-fidelity memory retrievalHuman-Centric AI: Experience in conversational AI, persona modeling, and alignmentSecurity & Privacy: Research background in privacy-preserving ML, secure RAG, FHE, MPC, or confidential computingHands-on Execution: Highly hands-on in PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX. Capable of training and scaling modelsPublication Record: First-author publications in top-tier international research venuesPatents: Should have patents. Preferably granted or filed in AI/ML Preferred Skills SLMs & Optimization: Expertise in model compression, quantization INT4/INT8, FlashAttention, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, TensorFlow Lite, XLA, JAX, Pathways, speculative decoding, edge inferenceHardware Accelerators: Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, Google TPUs, and mobile/edge NPUsEnergy Efficient AI: Research in reducing compute, memory, and energy for scalable deploymentConversational Video Pipelines: Real-time digital twins, talking-head generation, or video synthesisDistributed Systems: DeepSpeed, FSDP, ZeRO, HPC, GPU clusters, KubernetesConfidential Computing: Hardware security, differential privacy, decentralized protocolsResearch Leadership: Track record of presenting research at international forums Why Join CoRover AI with purpose and trust: Build technology that serves humanityDefine the future of personalized and efficient AI from day 0Work on fundamental research with global-scale impactAccess state-of-the-art research computePublish, patent, and present at leading research forumsGenerous ESOP for long-term alignmentMission: Build the ULM - Universal Language Model from Bharat This is not just product engineering role. This is fundamental research with global scale. To Apply: Send CV + Google Scholar + 3 best publications + Patent List to careers@corover.ai Subject: PhD - Principal Research Scientist - [Your Name] Job Description: Principal Research Scientist Advanced Foundations & Frontier Intelligence Company: CoRover AI | BharatGPT (AI with purpose and trust) Location: Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai - India; London - UK; Silicon Valley - US Work Mode: Hybrid Level: PhD Required Position Overview We are looking for a visionary Principal Research Scientist to do core algorithmic breakthrou