Design and deliver production AI features for SaaS products, partnering with product, engineering, and data teams to turn business needs into reliable, scalable services that improve customer outcomes.
Staff Applied Scientist - Knowledge Graphs & AI
📜 Description
- Architect and evolve per-tenant knowledge graph schemas, including entity resolution and ontology design.
- Develop NLP pipelines to extract structured knowledge from unstructured data such as sales calls and emails.
- Design reasoning layers over the knowledge graph to provide next-best-action suggestions and deal risk scoring.
- Train graph-based models to support reasoning and retrieval tasks, addressing embedding quality issues.
- Formalize sales execution concepts into structured representations that enhance AI capabilities.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to transition models from prototype to production.
🛠️ Requirements
- 2+ years of hands-on experience applying knowledge graphs or graph-based learning methods to real-world data in a production setting.
- Strong fundamentals in at least two of: knowledge graph construction, information extraction, graph neural networks, or recommender systems.
- Experience working with large-scale unstructured text data (conversational transcripts, email, or similar)
- Experience with probabilistic graphical models, conversational AI, or sales/revenue domain data
- Published research at top-tier venues
✨ Benefits
- Greenfield Architecture: Shape the design of a core AI system from the ground up, with the latitude to make foundational technical decisions that define the platform.
- Depth That Matters: This role genuinely requires PhD-level thinking; you will tackle problems in entity resolution, temporal reasoning, and graph learning that demand it.
- Applied Impact: Work with real production feedback loops and millions of sales interactions, not just benchmarks; see your models change how thousands of teams sell.
- High Leverage, Low Bureaucracy: Join a small, senior team where your contributions are visible, your ideas ship fast, and you have direct access to leadership.
- Career Growth: Opportunity to lead initiatives and mentor engineers.
Full job description
About the job:
- We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join a dynamic and innovative AI platform team that is pushing the boundaries of what's possible in sales execution. If you are passionate about applying cutting-edge research in knowledge graphs and reasoning systems to real-world problems at scale, this is an exceptional opportunity to shape a core piece of Outreach's AI architecture from the ground up.
- Our team is building a per-tenant contextual knowledge graph that captures the full complexity of each customer's sales environment: accounts, deals, contacts, rep behaviors, competitive landscape, and the signals buried in calls, emails, and CRM activity. This graph powers contextual reasoning across the platform, driving next-best-action recommendations, deal risk signals, coaching suggestions, and competitive intelligence. In this pivotal role, you will design the underlying representations, extraction pipelines, and reasoning layers that make this possible, working closely with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver innovative, scalable, and reliable AI capabilities with direct impact on revenue outcomes.
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