Principal Research Scientist – Advanced Foundations & Frontier Intelligence

We are looking for a visionary Principal Research Scientist to lead 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. Co Rover.ai is a Human-Centric Conversational Agentic AI Platform offering Full-Stack Enterprise & Sovereign AI with Bharat GPT, custom models, 4-Layer Composite AI & 100+ languages. Secure, compliant AI Assistants (Voice Bot, Video Bot & Chatbot) on Edge, On-Prem & Cloud. Requirements What We're Looking For Everything you need to know about this role — responsibilities and the skills we value. 0 1 Key Responsibilities Pioneer Next-Gen AI Foundations: Design architectures for emergent reasoning, long-horizon planning, and cognitive synthesis across distributed intelligence nodes Develop Continuous Persona Alignment: Build high-fidelity, real-time learning frameworks that capture human traits, speech patterns, and decision-making logic without catastrophic forgetting Human-Centric Conversational AI: Research dialogue systems that understand intent, emotion, and context for natural human-AI interaction Architect Agentic AI Systems: Formulate robust, secure AI-to-AI communication protocols for autonomous negotiation and workflow execution Standardized Agent Interfaces: Design MCP and API layers for each model to enable secure tool-use, function calling, and AI-to-AI communication Agentic Secure RAG: Build privacy-preserving retrieval systems using FHE, MPC, TEE for secure and sovereign memory Decentralized Data Sovereignty: Integrate cryptographic and federated learning mechanisms that maximize user data ownership Optimize for Edge & Resource-Constrained Hardware: Compile and compress multi-modal workloads for efficient execution on low-power devices. Focus on SLMs and optimized models Represent Co Rover: Serve as a technical ambassador for Co Rover at international tech/AI conferences and research forums. Build academic and industry partnerships IP Leadership: File full patents and contribute to the company’s IP portfolio. Translate research into defensible IP Research to Impact: Take research from concept to production at scale 0 2 Required Skills & Qualifications EDUCATION: Ph.D. Required in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a highly quantitative field from a premier institution Frontier Systems Focus: Proven research in foundation models, SLMs, multi-modal architectures, or personalized AI Agentic Frameworks: Deep expertise in lifelong learning, multi-agent coordination, and high-fidelity memory retrieval Human-Centric AI: Experience in conversational AI, persona modeling, and alignment Security & Privacy: Research background in privacy-preserving ML, secure RAG, FHE, MPC, or confidential computing Hands-on Execution: Highly hands-on in Py Torch/Tensor Flow/JAX. Capable of training and scaling models Publication Record: First-author publications in top-tier international research venues Patents: Should have patents. Preferably granted or filed in AI/ML 0 3 Preferred Skills SLMs & Optimization: Expertise in model compression, quantization INT4/INT8, Flash Attention, v LLM, Tensor RT-LLM, Tensor Flow Lite, XLA, JAX, Pathways, speculative decoding, edge inference Hardware Accelerators: Experience with NVIDIA GPUs, Google TPUs, and mobile/edge NPUs Energy Efficient AI: Research in reducing compute, memory, and energy for scalable deployment Conversational Video Pipelines: Real-time digital twins, talking-head generation, or video synthesis Distributed Systems: Deep Speed, FSDP, Ze RO, HPC, GPU clusters, Kubernetes Confidential Computing: Hardware security, differential privacy, decentralized protocols Research Leadership: Track record of presenting research at international forums 0 4 Why Join Co Rover AI with purpose and trust: Build technology that serves humanity Define the future of personalized and efficient AI from day 0 Work on fundamental research with global-scale impact Access state-of-the-art research compute Publish, patent, and present at leading research forums Generous ESOP for long-term alignment Mission: Build the ULM - Universal Language Model from Bharat Back to all open roles Job Overview Department AI Research & Development Location Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai - India; London - UK; Silicon Valley - US Job Type Full-Time Work Mode Hybrid Level Ph D Required Date Posted 22 July 2026 We are looking for a visionary Principal Research Scientist to lead 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. Apply for this Position We'll get back to you within 3–5 business days. Full Name * Email Address * Phone Number * Linked In / Portfolio URL Upload Resume * Click to upload or drag & drop PDF, DOC, DOCX · max 5MB Cover Letter Submit Application Ready to deploy at enterprise scale? Secure, compliant, and proven at national volume. Talk to Our Experts ISO 27001 99.9% Uptime GDPR Ready Co Rover P. 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