Research Scientist, Foundation Model
As a Research Scientist, Foundation Model at Prior Labs, you will drive the core model agenda by defining research directions, designing novel architectures, and publishing work that advances the field of tabular foundation models. This role involves solving complex problems such as scaling transformer architectures, building multimodal models, and optimizing models for real-world deployment, all while translating ideas into shipped products.
Tabular data breaks the assumptions that make scaling work for language and vision. There's no natural sequence, no spatial structure, no shared vocabulary across datasets. The architectures and scaling laws that power LLMs don't transfer. We've made the first breakthrough with TabPFN — but the hardest problems are still ahead.
At Prior Labs, Research Scientists drive the core model agenda. You'll define research directions, design novel architectures, and publish work that advances the field — while ensuring your ideas translate into models that actually ship. We create cutting-edge models because the same people do both. As an early team member, you'll have significant technical ownership and room to grow as we scale.
Posted May 29, 2026