AI Researcher

Join Uber to ship AI-first features. Strong with Midjourney and Gemini.

As a AI Researcher at Uber, you'll join a small, senior team building AI-native edtech products from the ground up. You'll work daily with Midjourney, Gemini, Claude to design, ship, and scale features that customers use every day. This is a high-ownership role — you'll have direct input on what we build and how we build it.

• Design, build, and ship production-grade AI features using Midjourney, Gemini, Claude
• Mentor junior builders and contribute to engineering standards
• Build retrieval, RAG, and agent pipelines that scale to thousands of concurrent users
• Architect end-to-end edtech workflows that integrate LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) with internal systems
• Optimise inference cost, latency, and reliability across services
• Collaborate with product, design, and customer teams to translate business problems into AI solutions
• Own the full lifecycle of features — from spec, prototype, A/B test, to rollout

• Have shipped LLM-powered products to real users (not just prototypes)
• 7+ years of experience as a AI Researcher or in a closely related role
• Strong written communication — you can document decisions clearly
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or both
• Strong hands-on experience with Midjourney / Gemini / Claude in real production environments
• Bias for shipping — comfortable owning ambiguous problems end-to-end
• Experience with prompt engineering, evals, and prompt-versioning workflows

• Have written publicly (blog posts, talks, OSS) about AI engineering
• Open source contributions to AI / dev-tools projects
• Past work in the EdTech domain
• Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or DSPy

• Work on problems that genuinely move the needle in EdTech
• Direct ownership — your code reaches real users within days, not quarters
• Learn from a team that has shipped at scale and built with Midjourney, Gemini, Claude from day one
• Tiny team, big surface area — wear multiple hats and grow fast