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title: 'Senior AI Researcher at LatamCent'
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# Senior AI Researcher at LatamCent

- **Company:** LatamCent
- **Location:** Brazil
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/latamcent/0303aea0-da0b-48a0-a3e6-1c11bfe4d5c7

## Job description

The Opportunity You'll join a small frontier AI team inside a fast growing B2B SaaS company, where the job is figuring out what new models can actually do and turning that into agents customers use. In your first 90 days you'll set your own research agenda and build the benchmarks the team trusts; within a year your experiments will be shaping the product. If you like owning hard, open problems with no backlog and real impact, this is that seat.

## What You'll Own

- Decide which new models, papers and techniques are worth betting on, and prove it with data
- Build agents on frontier APIs that understand unfamiliar software and complete real business tasks
- Create the eval and benchmark system that tells the team when an agent truly got better
- Turn agent failures into fixes by digging into where and why things break
- Ship frontier prototypes and demos that leadership shows to customers, then hand the winners to engineering
- Be the team's public voice on what you learn: blog posts, talks and short videos

## What We're Looking For

- 5+ years at startups owning technical outcomes (3+ considered for standout profiles)
- Hands on work building multi step agents with frontier LLMs (tool use, orchestration)
- A track record of AI products or systems that reached real users
- Rigorous experiment design: baselines, eval sets, telling signal from noise
- You move work forward on your own and raise blockers early, without needing structure
- AI tools are part of your daily workflow, and you can name what you use for what
- Strong spoken and written English for presentations, travel and writing
- Open to an independent contractor setup paid in USD

## Nice to Have

- Time at a top AI lab, or experience training agents in real environments
- RL, post training or fine tuning experience
- Published research, benchmarks, open source work or technical writing
- An active voice in the AI community (posts, talks, GDE or similar) Tools and Stack Python, frontier model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini), agent and eval tooling of your choice. The team has no fixed stack and builds its own when that works best. Details
- Location: Hybrid, São Paulo, Brazil (3 days/week on site); relocation support available
- Time Zone: Brazil (BRT)
- Salary: $6,650 to $7,500/month USD ($80K to $90K/year)
- Equity: Included
- Type: Contract

## About the Company

Post Series A B2B SaaS company of about 35 people building an enterprise AI agent that learns any web app on its own and takes action through its UI and API. You'd join its frontier research team, which explores new AI capabilities and feeds them into the core product. Perks include a learning allowance and budget to try the latest AI models and tools.

## About LatamCent

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LatamCent is a nearshore hiring partner that helps AI & B2B SaaS companies build remote teams with vetted professionals from Latin America.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; funding not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Miami Beach, Florida, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Luiz Cent

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Staffing and Recruiting, specialized in nearshore talent for AI and B2B SaaS companies.
- **Target customers**: U.S.-based B2B SaaS and AI startups, scale-ups, and enterprises.
- **Mission**: “Helping great companies and great talent grow together” – making hiring faster, smarter, and more human for teams that want to scale.

## Products & Services
- **Talent as a Service (TaaS)**: Fully managed service providing vetted LATAM professionals to join client projects on short notice. Payroll, compliance, and onboarding are handled by LatamCent. Candidates can start within days.
- **Direct Hire**: Full-time recruitment of AI & B2B SaaS professionals. LatamCent handles sourcing, multi-step vetting, and coordination. Typical time-to-hire is 21 days.
- **Contingency Recruitment**: Flexible model where LatamCent embeds as an extension of client teams, managing contracts, payroll, and compliance when needed.
- **Contractor-on-Record Services**: For companies without a LATAM entity, LatamCent acts as the legal employer, managing payroll, tax, and compliance to reduce establishment risk.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: 170+ candidates hired, 50+ client expansions, and a 93% first-placement success rate as of 2026. [latamcent.com](https://latamcent.com/about/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available.
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2023, the company already operates across 8 countries (Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, Australia, and more) and has offices in Miami and Medellín. LinkedIn reports 20,982 followers and a 400% quarterly increase in active job postings. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/latamcent)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep specialization**: Exclusively focuses on AI & B2B SaaS companies – founders and recruiters are former operators in that space, understanding product velocity, revenue targets, and team dynamics.
- **Stringent vetting**: Multi-step process includes role-specific interviews, technical/role-play exercises, responsiveness checks, reference verifications, and international background checks. Drives a 93% first-placement success rate with a 60-day replacement guarantee.
- **Flexible engagement models**: TaaS, Direct Hire, and Contingency options let clients scale up or down without overhead.
- **Speed**: First candidates presented in 7 days; most roles closed in 21 days; offers sent within 24 hours of decision.
- **Compliance and risk management**: Acts as contractor-on-record, handling payroll, legal, and tax for clients in up to 8 LATAM countries – nearly 99% of clients choose this service.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen the nearshore talent pipeline from Latin America for high-growth AI and B2B SaaS teams.
- Expand hiring across multiple departments (engineering, GTM, finance, marketing) while maintaining a curated, high-touch approach.
- Continue building a remote-first, operationally efficient platform that reduces time-to-hire and compliance friction for clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first culture**: All open positions are remote. [latamcent.com/careers](https://latamcent.com/careers/)
- **Small, agile team**: Approximately 15 employees spanning several countries, offering a startup environment with direct impact.
- **Core values**: Action, ownership, clarity, and follow-through guide internal and client-facing work.
- **Exposure to cutting-edge tech**: Roles support AI, ML, blockchain, and B2B SaaS clients – employees work on real-world AI use cases and modern tech stacks.
- **Growth opportunity**: Rapidly growing company (170+ hires placed, 50+ client expansions in ~3 years) with a trajectory that offers career advancement.
- **Current open roles (as of mid-2026)**: SDR, SEO & GEO Analyst, Forward Deployed Engineer, Senior AI Engineer – indicating a mix of go-to-market and engineering positions. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/latamcent](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/latamcent)

## Sources
1. [latamcent.com](https://latamcent.com/)
2. [latamcent.com/about](https://latamcent.com/about/)
3. [latamcent.com/careers](https://latamcent.com/careers/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/latamcent](https://www.linkedin.com/company/latamcent)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/latamcent](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/latamcent)

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