Co-Founder — Multi-Agent AI Research ScientistPlainHand | Remote | Equity Only | $0 Salary
IMPORTANT: This is a co-founder position. There is currently ZERO salary or cash compensation. Compensation is EQUITY ONLY.
PlainHand is looking for a Multi-Agent AI Research Scientist to join as a technical co-founder and help build an experimental framework in which AI agents can explore, challenge, refine, and formalize scientific hypotheses.
This is not an LLM-wrapper or agent-workflow position. We are interested in the underlying science of how groups of intelligent agents should interact to produce better reasoning and discovery.
Primary ObjectiveBuild agent-based systems that explore and refine hypotheses, mathematical structures, and potential learning mechanisms.
What You'll Work On
• Design multi-agent communication protocols and architectures
• Develop agent hierarchies, specialization, debate, critique, and coordination mechanisms
• Create agents for hypothesis generation, falsification, mathematical reasoning, anomaly investigation, and experimental design
• Experimentally compare different agent organizations and interaction strategies
• Measure which structures actually improve research outcomes
• Study emergent behavior and collective reasoning
• Work directly with theoretical ML researchers, applied mathematicians, statisticians, and research engineers
• Turn promising agent discoveries into formal, falsifiable models
We're Looking ForResearchers with backgrounds in areas such as:
• Multi-agent systems
• Agentic AI
• Reinforcement learning
• Emergent communication
• Collective intelligence
• AI reasoning
• Computational social systems
• Machine learning research
A PhD or strong research publication record is preferred, but demonstrated ability to conduct original research matters more than credentials alone.
What Success Looks LikeYou don't simply build a collection of agents that appears intelligent.
You demonstrate experimentally that particular forms of communication, specialization, hierarchy, debate, or coordination produce measurably better research outcomes.
Compensation$0 salary. No cash compensation. Equity only.
This is a co-founder role, not conventional employment. It is intended for someone who wants to help build the research architecture and company from the ground up and participate in the upside through ownership.
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