Job brief: Senior Agentic AI Research Scientist

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• Listed on Axon's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-05 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-08.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $159,750 to $255,600 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Seattle, Washington, United States · Washington-Office
• Posted: 2026-06-10 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Senior. The title says "Senior".

Must have

• PhD and 3+ years of experience in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on multimodal machine learning, large language models, video understanding, information retrieva…
• Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok.
• All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures.

Conditions

• Location: This role is based out of our Seattle, WA office and follows a hybrid schedule.
• We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.
• Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

Main duties

• Collaborate with other scientists, engineers and product managers to build proof-of-concepts to shape the Axon of tomorrow.
• Lead end-to-end research efforts in AI-assisted universal search of and reasoning over large multimodal data with an emphasis on video understanding.
• Design and implement responsible, privacy-preserving, efficient and scalable models for inference and analysis of visual data.
• Develop performance and quality metrics for agentic multimodal reasoning models and systems, and validate their effectiveness in real-world settings.
• Contribute to academic publications, technical documentation, and patent disclosures to share insights and findings with the broader community.

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• Across Axon's 388 open listings, 49% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Axon hires

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