Applied Researcher (Staff+) is open at Lightfield in HQ: San Francisco. The posting gives a salary of $220K - $300K. Posted on Oct 21, 2026, and still on Lightfield’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
We’re starting Lightfield Research to build a Business World Model through frontier research in simulation, world modeling and self-improvement. We’re hiring applied researchers and research scientists to lead its first projects. You’ll report directly to Ves Stoyanov, co-founder and Chief AI Officer, previously at Facebook AI, where he co-authored RoBERTa and XLM-R. You’ll work alongside AI engineers who take…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Lightfield’s careers page.
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