AI Researcher

About the Role

Both short-term and permanent roles are possible. About BolterBolter is an AI agent platform built to help people get real work done, without needing to stitch together multiple tools or spend weeks setting things up.You describe what you need in plain language and Bolter creates and runs agents that can carry out the work end to end. They retain context, remember how you work and can also create real, shareable apps such as trackers and dashboards.Bolter is funded and currently at the validation-sprint stage, working with a small group of high-impact operators. The product already exists. We are now looking for a founding designer to lead a significant redesign and establish the design foundations for what comes next. About the roleAs Bolter s AI Researcher, your job is to make agents that do real work trustworthy, capable, and useful - and to figure out how before we build it at scale.This is applied research with direct product impact. You design and run experiments, evaluate what works and what doesn t, and turn findings into decisions the engineering team ships. You ll work directly with the GM and the product engineer in a lean team, with specialised AI agents supporting implementation.The research problem goes beyond improving a model. It is working out how an agent that retains context, carries out multi-step work and creates software itself can be relied on to do it correctly. What you ll doDesign and run experiments to test how Bolter s agents behave - reliability, context retention, multi-step task completion, and where they fail.Build and own the evaluation layer. Design evals that measure whether agents actually do the work, not just whether they sound plausible.Research the frontier. Keep Bolter current on the state of the art in LLM agents, tool use, and reliability - and translate that into what we should build.Turn findings into decisions. You produce clear, actionable recommendations the engineering team can ship, not just papers.Prototype resea...