Job Description

Lab Summary

The Language & Personal Intelligence (LPI) Lab at Samsung Research America focuses on advancing next-generation AI systems that understand, reason, remember, and adapt to users over time. Our mission is to build deeply personalized, contextaware, and agentic intelligence that operates efficiently across devices and ecosystems, combining foundational research with realworld impact at global scale.

Position Summary

We are seeking a research leader to drive innovation in Language & Personal Intelligence, with a strong emphasis on agentic reasoning, adaptive memory, and lifelong learning systems. This role will lead research efforts at the intersection of language models, planning agents, memory architectures, and reinforcement learningenabling AI systems that reason, plan, and evolve with individual users over long time horizons.

• Opportunity to shape foundational research in adaptive, agentic AI with global impact
• Collaboration with worldclass researchers across language, cognition, and systems

Position Responsibilities

• Define and lead research agendas in agentic language intelligence, adaptive personalization, and longterm user modeling
• Research, design and develop selfevolving memory systems enabling persistent, personalized, and contextual AI behavior
• Advance RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) and hybrid reasoning systems that combine memory, retrieval, planning, and language understanding
• Lead research on agentic reasoning, including:
  • Reinforcement Learning (RL, RLHF, offline/online RL)
  • Progressive and hierarchical planning
  • Personalized planning and decisionmaking
  • Multistep reasoning and goaldirected agents
• Explore continual and lifelong learning approaches that allow models to adapt
• Investigate and prototype learning frameworks and associative memorylike architectures for personalized reasoning and recall
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to transition research into scalable, productionready systems
• Publish at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP) and contribute to patents and internal innovation initiatives
• Mentor researchers and shape the scientific direction of the Language & Personal Intelligence Lab

Required Skills

• PhD in AI, Machine Learning, NLP, Cognitive Computing, Knowledge representation and reasoning or related field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 14+ years of research experience in the fields of AI/NLP/ML
• Strong publication record in areas such as language models, agentic systems, reinforcement learning, memory or adaptive AI
• Deep expertise in modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX)
• Proven experience with LLMs, retrievalbased systems, or knowledgeaugmented NLP
• Strong understanding of:
  • Agentbased architectures
  • Multistep reasoning and planning
  • Personalization and user modeling
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence both research and product strategy
• Additional Required Research Focus:
  • Selfevolving and longterm memory construction
  • RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) and related AI architectures
  • Agentic reasoning and planning systems
  • Reinforcement learning methods for reasoning, adaptation, and personalization

Special Attributes

• Research or handson experience in continual / lifelong learning
• Nested learning and hierarchical learning frameworks
• Hopfield networks, energybased models, or associative memory systems
• Progressive planning and hierarchical RL
• Personalized agents and usercentric decisionmaking
• Experience bridging theory and applied systems, including deploymentaware research
• Contributions to opensource projects or publicly released research artifacts

Compensation

Base Pay Range

$235,400 - $365,650 USD

Additional Information

Disclosure of Trade Secrets: Samsung has a strict policy on trade secrets. In applying to Samsung and progressing through the recruitment process, you must not disclose any trade secrets of a current or previous employer.

Essential Job Functions

This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, and frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.

EEO Statement

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