Principal Research Scientist - Frontier Industrial AI

About the role

AVEVA seeks a principal researcher to build industrial AI research systems involving foundation models, multimodal and time-series data, simulation and world models, trustworthy agents, staged autonomy, data foundations, ontology learning, and evaluation. Requires a PhD or equivalent research experience, original technical contributions, AI experimentation, software development, and independent research. Industrial/scientific data experience is preferred. Listed hybrid in Lake Forest; sponsorship is not addressed.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent research experience in ML, AI, CS, applied mathematics, engineering, or related field
• Evidence of original research through publications, patents, open-source work, prototypes, or technical contributions
• Hands-on AI experimentation and software development
• Independent research initiative and strong scientific judgment
• Deep expertise in foundation models, multimodal learning, time series, generative models, reinforcement learning, agentic systems, simulation, world models, representation learning, or AI evaluation
• Industrial, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, engineering, or scientific data experience preferred
• Hybrid arrangement; on-site expectation may be 50% for most roles, final arrangement to be confirmed

What you'll do

• Define and lead frontier industrial-AI research initiatives
• Develop models, algorithms, evaluation methods, and architectures
• Build validated experimental systems and prototypes
• Publish AI/ML research and contribute patents and IP
• Create benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation frameworks
• Advance long-term AI research strategy

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