PointFive

Researcher

• Design and develop SLMs for endpoint devices such as laptops
• Design and develop a model router using endpoint state
• Design rigorous evaluation methodologies for API-based coding agents, with and without access to external tools
• Build statistically sound benchmarks measuring cost, latency, accuracy, reliability, and developer productivity
• Develop techniques for optimizing agent context, retrieval, memory, and tool interactions while preserving correctness
• Design and analyze large-scale experimental campaigns using production APIs across multiple foundation models
• Build reusable research infrastructure, datasets, simulators, and evaluation frameworks for agentic systems
• Publish technical reports and contribute research findings influencing product direction and the broader AI community
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate research into production-ready optimization systems
• Stay current with advances in LLMs, agent architectures, retrieval systems, and AI evaluation methodologies

LLM Researcher