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Staff Research Scientist – Neuro‑Symbolic Knowledge‑Graph Integration Lead

corpora-jobs-1778796293285-db9d41c6 - Frontier Development
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Why This Role is Different

Frontier Development Role

Architect a cutting‑edge neuro‑symbolic system that lets agents reason over domain ontologies while learning from sparse interactions. Your work will make it possible to generate human‑readable, audit‑ready rationales on demand, a first for adversarial MARL.

The Frontier Element

You will pioneer a dynamic hypernetwork that generates task‑specific symbolic constraints on the fly, allowing the policy to adapt to evolving knowledge graphs without retraining the entire network.

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Project Context

Research Area

Neuro‑Symbolic Hybrid Training with Knowledge Graphs for Explainable MARL

From: Explainability Budget Optimization for Sample Efficiency

Why This Role is Critical

This role is essential to fuse symbolic knowledge into policy networks, enabling cached feature‑level attributions and explicit rationales that satisfy regulatory mandates.

What You Will Build

A hybrid policy architecture that interleaves neural policy layers with KG‑driven symbolic reasoning, a caching layer for reusable explanations, and a training pipeline that jointly optimizes performance and interpretability.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a hybrid policy that couples a graph neural network with a symbolic reasoning engine.
  • Develop a KG embedding pipeline that supports dynamic updates and real‑time inference.
  • Create a caching mechanism for symbolic explanations to avoid recomputation.
  • Integrate counterfactual explanation hooks into the policy for on‑the‑fly clarification.
  • Validate the system on regulated domains (finance, healthcare) and demonstrate compliance with GDPR and AI Act.
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Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

Graph Neural Networks & Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Expert
Building scalable KG representations.

Symbolic Reasoning & Rule‑Based Systems

Advanced
Generating explicit rationales.

Reinforcement Learning with Hybrid Architectures

Advanced
Jointly optimizing policy and explanations.

Experience Requirements

  • 3+ years leading neuro‑symbolic or hybrid AI projects.
  • Published work on KG‑driven RL or explainable AI.

Education

PhD in AI, Knowledge Representation, or related field.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with dynamic hypernetworks or meta‑learning for symbolic constraints.
  • Knowledge of regulatory compliance frameworks for AI.
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You Will Thrive Here If...

  • Enjoys solving problems that have no existing solutions.
  • Can own the entire stack from data ingestion to deployment.
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Impact & Growth

12-Month Impact

By year‑end, deploy a neuro‑symbolic MARL agent that achieves ≥25% faster convergence than a purely neural baseline while producing audit‑ready explanations that pass an external regulatory review.

Growth Opportunity

Scale the hybrid framework to multi‑modal domains and lead a research‑to‑product pipeline for a portfolio of regulated applications.

Ready to Push the Boundaries?

If this sounds like the challenge you have been looking for, we want to hear from you. We value what you can build over where you have been.