Applied Scientist, AI Product Methods

About Evolver 

Evolver is an AI technology company transforming professional services. We combine deep domain expertise, advanced AI, and continuous applied learning to automate complex enterprise workflows while keeping people involved where judgment matters. 

Our goal is to help organizations operate more efficiently, accurately, and intelligently. 

About the Role 

We are hiring Applied Scientists in Palo Alto to define how important AI capabilities should work inside our products – and to turn those definitions into something Engineering can ship. 

Starting from a product need or system limitation, you will design a methodology, prototype it, evaluate its performance, and partner with Product and Engineering to incorporate the validated approach into the product. 

Research is an input, not the final output. You will use relevant academic and industry findings where useful, then translate them into practical methods that can be implemented, evaluated, and improved in real enterprise workflows. Translation into product is the core of this role. 

What You'll Do 

• Define methodologies for capabilities such as reasoning, planning, retrieval, grounding, verification, and learning from feedback. 

• Turn product needs and system limitations into clear methodological questions. 

• Evaluate relevant research and industry techniques, identifying what should be adopted, adapted, or rejected. 

• Design methodologies with explicit assumptions, workflows, decision rules, evaluation criteria, and known limitations. 

• Build prototypes (Python, Cloud – Azure preferred) and reference implementations. 

• Create evaluations that measure effectiveness, reliability, and failure modes. 

• Compare alternative approaches and make evidence-based recommendations. 

• Convert validated methodologies into specifications, reference code, evaluation assets, and acceptance criteria. 

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