AI Research Engineer

Build AI That Advances Science, Engineering, and Intelligent Systems

Artificial Intelligence is entering a new era—one where AI systems can reason, learn, and accelerate innovation across science and industry.

At Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), we are developing next-generation AI technologies across AI Agents, Foundation Models, and Scientific AI. We are looking for talented AI Research Engineers who want to push the boundaries of AI and transform research breakthroughs into real-world impact.

International candidates are welcome. Relocation assistance and work permit support are available.

📍 Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan

What You'll Work On

You will contribute to frontier AI research and development in areas including:

Autonomous AI Systems

• AI Agents, Agentic AI, reasoning, planning, and tool use
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Memory, Skills, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Foundation Models

• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Multimodal AI and Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
• Time-Series Foundation Models
• Reinforcement Learning, Transfer Learning, Diffusion Models, and model optimization

Scientific AI

• Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
• Neural Operators
• Flow Matching
• Scientific Machine Learning

You will build AI systems across the research lifecycle—from experimentation and model development to evaluation and real-world deployment.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for researchers and engineers who enjoy solving challenging AI problems.

You may have experience with:

• Deep Learning, Generative AI, Foundation Models, or AI Agents
• Python and PyTorch
• Model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and data engineering
• Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, PEFT, Datasets, Tokenizers)
• Open-source AI frameworks such as vLLM, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or LlamaFactory
• Mandarin speaker preferred

Experience with C/C++ or high-performance AI systems is a plus.

Why Join ITRI?

Research Freedom

Explore ambitious AI ideas, collaborate with leading researchers, and contribute to publications, patents, and open-source initiatives.

Compute & Resources

Access advanced GPU infrastructure, large-scale datasets, and engineering support to develop and evaluate state-of-the-art AI systems.

Real-World Impact

Your work will help bring frontier AI into applications spanning semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, robotics, healthcare, and scientific computing.

Join Us in Building the Future of AI

If you are passionate about advancing AI and solving problems that matter, we’d love to hear from you.

[Meet ITRI at Taiwan Tech Summit & Taiwan Career Day 2026!]

ITRI will be at Taiwan Tech Summit this fall, joining the Forum and Panel discussions. Come learn more about ITRI and hear from our team! Then, stop by our booth at Taiwan Career Day 2026 to meet our team and explore career opportunities at ITRI.

• Date: September 26, 2026 (Saturday)
• Time: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM (PDT)
• Location: Santa Clara Convention Center
• Register Now: https://lnkd.in/ghwf3PgT