Role location: Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Role: AI Engineer (PhD Required).
Key Responsibilities:
As an AI Research Engineer at Pixalate, you'll bridge the gap between fundamental AI research and production systems that protect the digital ecosystem. Working with our Research team (AFAC) that has uncovered more than $100M in ad fraud and national security threats, you'll have the autonomy to pursue groundbreaking research while seeing your innovations deployed at scale within months, not years.
You'll lead research in emerging AI paradigms including autonomous agent systems, test-time compute optimization, and multimodal understanding - all applied to real-world challenges in digital safety and fraud detection.
Eligibility / Qualification Required:
- PhD in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or related field (or exceptional research track record)
- Published research in peer-reviewed venues demonstrating expertise in:
- Large Language Models and transformer architectures
- Agentic AI, autonomous systems, or multi-agent coordination
- Multimodal learning or computer vision
- Distributed systems and scalable ML
- Experience with fraud detection, cybersecurity, or trust & safety applications
- Contributions to open-source AI projects
- Industry research experience at leading AI labs (DeepMind, OpenAI, FAIR, etc.)
- Experience translating research into production systems
- Experience with:
- Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures
- Constitutional AI and alignment techniques
- Efficient inference optimization (quantization, distillation)
- Real-time streaming ML systems
Benefits:
- Monthly internet reimbursement
- Casual, remote work environment
- Hybrid, flexible hours
- Opportunity for advancement
- Fun annual team events
- Being part of a high-performing team that wants to win and have fun doing it
- Extremely competitive compensation
We're particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate both theoretical depth and practical implementation skills. Show us how your research can transform the landscape of online trust and safety.
Pixalate is an online trust and safety platform that protects businesses, consumers and children from deceptive, fraudulent and non-compliant mobile, CTV apps and websites. We're seeking a PhD-level AI Engineer to lead cutting-edge research in agentic AI systems, multimodal analysis, and advanced reasoning architectures that will directly impact millions of users worldwide.
Our software and data have been used to unearth multiple high profile criminal and illegal surveillance cases including:
- Gizmodo: An iCloud Feature Is Enabling a $65 Million Scam, New Research Says
- Adweek: A 7-Figure Ad Fraud Scheme Running on Roku Underlines Murkiness of CTV
- Washington Post: Your kids’ apps are spying on them
- Pro Publica: Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
- ABC7 News: The State of Children's Privacy Online
- NBC News: How many apps are tracking your children
Our team of lawyers, data scientists, engineers, economists and researchers span globally with presence in California, New York, Washington DC, London and Singapore.
How to Apply:
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