Within the Agorai Innovation Hub we are looking for a talented and proactive resource, who will work directly with the AI Architect and Head of Technology on use case definition and technical direction.

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The researcher will work at the intersection of language understanding, knowledge representation, and trustworthy AI. This means combining LLMs with structured knowledge to ground reasoning; designing evaluation frameworks that surface failure modes before they reach production; and building information extraction systems whose outputs can be audited.

Key responsibilities of the role will include:

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- Own the research-to-production arc on language understanding and knowledge-grounded AI: from literature review and experimentation to deployment and monitoring

- Design AI systems whose outputs can be explained, audited, and trusted in regulated contexts — and know when simpler approaches serve that goal better than complex ones

- Build production-quality services around your models: APIs, inference pipelines, evaluation harnesses

- Design evaluation frameworks that go beyond benchmark metrics — testing for failure modes, edge cases, and behavior under distribution shift

- Work on information extraction, semantic understanding, and structured knowledge problems grounded in real industrial data

- Stay current with the research frontier in language models, interpretability, and trustworthy AI;

- Contribute to technical standards and code quality across the team

- Work on a genuinely hard and open research problem with direct industrial application

The role is based in Trieste and includes a hybrid work model, offering flexibility through remote working days.

Requirements

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- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science,



Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering or a related STEM field

- At least 3–5 years of experience working with NLP or language understanding systems in production environments, such as text classification, information extraction, semantic search, RAG, or generative systems

- At least 3–5 years of experience in applied NLP or computer vision, working with real-world data and operational constraints rather than benchmark-only environments

- Experience working across one or more of the following sectors: Healthcare, Financial Services, Mobility/Transport, Agriculture

Technical Skills

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- Fluent across the stack: LLM-based systems, classical ML, APIs, microservices, inference optimization

- Strong software engineering fundamentals: your code is modular, testable, and maintainable by someone other than you

- Comfort with the full arc from prototype to production: you know what a model registry is, you have thought about inference latency, you have monitored a deployed model

- Working knowledge of Python ML ecosystem: PyTorch or JAX, HuggingFace, experiment tracking (MLflow, W&B;), serving frameworks

Soft Skills & Personal Attributes

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- Entrepreneurial mindset: takes ownership, operates with autonomy and drives things forward without waiting for direction

- Genuine interest in trustworthy and explainable AI — not as a theoretical topic but as a design constraint that shapes how you build





- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to interact effectively with both technical teams and C-suite executives or institutional clients

Languages

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- English: Full professional proficiency required (primary working language for international projects and publications)

- Italian: Knowledge of Italian is considered an advantage

What we offer

We offer employment at the VI Professional level with the relevant salary, in accordance with the CCNL ANIA for non-executive employees and the Generali Group Company Agreement.

Gross annual salary starting from 50K€ . The final offer will be aligned with the candidate’s professional experience, technical and soft skills relevant to the role, and may include an individual variable component.

We also offer:

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- Lavoro da remoto and flexible hours

- Corporate welfare system

- Meal vouchers

- Supplementary health insurance and discounted insurance policies

- Wellbeing initiatives

- Training and development

- Structured continuous learning paths (technical and managerial)

- Career development programs

- Access to learning platforms and internal mobility opportunities

Company Profile

Agorai is a B2B AI Innovation Hub founded in Trieste, Italy, backed by Generali, Fincantieri, Illy, and Regione FVG. Our mission is to HumanAIze the future — developing AI that is safe, responsible, and built to benefit humanity as a whole. We work on industrial and enterprise use cases, but also on projects with direct public benefit: public safety, territorial development, and societal challenges where AI can make a genuine difference. We build solutions we own, sell, and scale. xysqume We are at the very beginning: no bureaucracy, no legacy, high ambition.

Location

Trieste (Italy)

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