Senior Applied AI Researcher - Human Behavior and Carbon Neutrality
Senior Applied AI Researcher - Human Behavior and Carbon Neutrality
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10-04-2025
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$ 201600 - 302400
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1 Vacancy
Posted on :
10-04-2025
Job Description
At Toyota Research Institute (TRI) were on a mission to improve the quality of human life. Were developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this transformative shift in mobility weve built a worldclass team in HumanCentered AI Energy and Materials Human Interactive Driving and Robotics.
TRIs Carbon Neutrality Department within our HumanCentered AI (HCAI) Division blends behavioral science humancomputer interaction research and machine learning to understand predict and enable carbon neutral behavior.
We are looking for a research scientist who has expertise in and enthusiasm for building AIbacked applications that push the boundaries of humancentered science. This work will involve working closely with experts in AI and behavior science to integrate machine learning models into live applications. The researcher should be comfortable iterating prototypes rapidly as they build toward the design and development of robust systems. The researcher should have a broad range of interests spanning social science psychology generative AI user experience/HCI and design. The researcher should be able to leverage systems they build to support research projects in all of these domains and lead a research project in at least one of them.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate crossfunctionally with specialists in multiple fields as well as university partners to research and develop technology that incorporates AI models into the design of interactive systems
- Develop realtime full stack interactive prototypes across a range of modalities including app web and mobile
- Conduct basic user experience studies (e.g. heuristic evaluations cognitive walkthroughs Wizard of Oz etc. on their own
- Work with experts in human behavior to conduct more thorough evaluations of prototypes
- Adjust prototypes to support research goals and integrate extensive logging features
- Work with an engineering team to build out robust scalable versions of their prototypes
- Support the research goals of others on the team while also advancing their own research agenda
- Stay up to date on the stateoftheart in AI models APIs integration frameworks and scalable AI model deployment solutions
- Collaborate with scientists in the Carbon Neutrality Department to shape our research program and to communicate research to Toyota stakeholders
- Publish findings in academic journals and/or conferences
- Contribute to technology transfer of research throughout Toyota
Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science HCI/Human Centered Design Information/Information Management and Systems or related multidisciplinary fields
- 3 years of experience prototyping and deploying applied AI projects
- Full stack web programming proficiency (preference for Python or similar on the backend and JS and JS frameworks and libraries on the frontend but full stack libraries such as Next.js/Node/React Django Flask FastAPI Laravel etc. or also acceptable)
- Familiarity with at least one AI framework (such as PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face or similar)
- Familiarity with at least one method of mobile prototyping (such as mobile web iOS or Android or a crossplatform framework such as React Native Flutter or similar)
- Familiarity with at least one framework supporting AI model hosting and deployment to live applications (such as AWS Sagemaker/Lambda Google Cloud Vertex AI or Azure ML or similar)
- Familiarity with data storage techniques (such as NoSQL/MongoDB and/or DynamoDB MySQL PostgreSQL or similar)
- Willingness to learn new frameworks
- Some experience in humancentered research (e.g. behavioral data science computational social science humancomputer interaction) including qualitative and/or quantitative methods such as experiments and user studies
- Broad knowledge of applied machine learning approaches
- Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and functions
- Strong project management skills and desire to work on challenging openended research projects
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously while soliciting feedback
- Strong interpersonal skills. Great teammate.
- Strong interest in research to facilitate carbon neutrality
- Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly across different audiences
Bonus Qualifications
- Familiarity with data science toolkits (e.g. Python Pandas NumPy etc.
- Familiarity with methods to support asynchronous requests (such as Celery Redis RabbitMQ Amazon SQS or similar)
- Experience with finetuning approaches (e.g. LoRA)
- Ability to balance multiple projects including shortterm targeted analyses and novel cuttingedge projects that may span several years
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $201600 and $302400/year for Californiabased roles; however base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors including market location jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Note that TRI offers a generous benefits package (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits such as vacation sick time and parental leave) and an annual cash bonus structure. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
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