Researcher, Strategic Research

The opportunity Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly’s product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across and get results. To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Research Scientist, Advanced Natural Language, to join our Strategic Research team. The person in this role will work on the strategic research team, with the goal of propelling the company to the forefront of technology.

The responsibilities of this role include working on strategic research and product technology. The role requires collaborating with industry and academia to advance the company's research and development efforts. Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure.

Your impact As a member of the strategic research team, you will:

• Work on challenging research problems alongside a group of top-notch researchers.
• Effectively utilize unique datasets and computing resources for your research, and collaborate with the product teams to develop cutting-edge products.
• Contribute to the research community by publishing results and participating in conferences and workshops.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has deep and broad expertise in modern machine learning methods related to natural language processing.
• Has experience in Deep Learning, LLMs, and/or classical methods.
• Can define the directions and perform strategic breakthrough research that improves life for millions of people.
• Is able to effectively collaborate with other teams at the company and external business and research organizations.
• Has practical skills using modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, HuggingFace, Weights and Biases, and others.

Support for you, professionally and personally:

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values.
• We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways, including our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities.

Compensation and benefits:

• Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing excellent health care, disability and life insurance options, 401(k) and RRSP matching, paid parental leave, twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days.
• Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location.

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law.