Machine (Meta) Learner (m/f/d)

Tasks

Our research revolves around synthetic world data, deep-learning models trained and validated against it, and capable embedders across domains and modalities. You will:

• Shape and pursue research questions around PFNs, meta-learning, in-context learning, representation learning, causality, active learning and adaptive decision-making.
• Design priors and synthetic task distributions that expose models to useful structure, uncertainty and failure modes.
• Develop model architectures and training methods for temporal, goal-conditioned and dynamical settings.
• Build rigorous evaluations, including strong baselines, ablations, calibration tests and out-of-distribution diagnostics.
• Implement research ideas reliably in Python and PyTorch, and improve the data and experiment pipelines around them.
• Contribute to top-tier publications, open-source releases and the wider research agenda at kausable.

You will help define kausable's research agenda, not just execute it. As the team grows, there is room to lead a research direction, mentor incoming scientists, and shape how our published work and open-source contributions reach the wider community. And as kausable begins working with its first customers, the research you do here is increasingly likely to leave the lab and reach real-world deployment.

Requirements

We are looking for research scientists with a strong background in one or more of:

• Deep expertise in PFNs, meta-learning, Bayesian inference, Neural Processes, representation learning, causality, active learning or a closely related area.
• A record of generating original research hypotheses and testing them with scientific rigor.
• Strong experimental judgment: you can distinguish optimization failure, prior misspecification and distribution shift.
• Reliable implementation skills in Python and PyTorch or JAX.
• A PhD in machine learning, physics, statistics or a related field, or equivalent research experience. The ability to work independently, explain difficult ideas clearly and change your mind when the evidence demands it.

We are primarily hiring at senior level. We are also open to exceptional candidates with fewer years of experience who can demonstrate comparable depth, judgment and ownership.

Recommended qualifications:

• A PhD in ML, Physics, or equivalent — or an MSc with exceptional experience
• A strong grasp of causality, meta-learning, PFNs, and active inference
• The ability to work independently and think from first principles
• Hands-on experience with modern ML tooling (Python, PyTorch) and research workflows
• An outcome-oriented mindset

Nice to have:

• Causal modeling, active learning or Bayesian optimization.
• Reinforcement learning, control, time-series modeling or dynamical systems.
• Synthetic-data generation, graph-based models or simulation environments.
• Publications at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR or comparable venues.
• Meaningful open-source contributions.

We offer

Benefits

Perks & Benefits

• VSOP equity: a real stake in what we build.
• 30 days of paid holiday per year.
• Statutory social insurance.
• Conference travel and role-relevant learning.
• Flexible hybrid work, with roughly one in-person team meet-up per month. A high-end laptop and access to the compute required to do serious research.

Tools and Infrastructure

• Python, PyTorch, and PyTorch Lightning
• Weights & Biases and reproducible experiment workflows.
• Docker, AWS, RunPod and comparable cloud infrastructure