Senior Research Scientist - Algorithms & Distributed Systems

Senior Research Scientist – Algorithms & Distributed Systems

Team: YAL – Advanced R&D Division

Location: Hyderabad

Type: Full-time · Hands-on Applied Research

Compensation: Competitive (Aligned with top-tier engineering talent)

About YAL

YAL is building a secure, AI-native communication and discovery platform designed for hundreds of millions of users.

Our systems combine large-scale real-time messaging infrastructure with graph-based, relevance-driven discovery and ranking systems — optimized for ultra-low latency, storage efficiency, privacy, and adversarial robustness.

This is foundational systems work.

We are not iterating on existing patterns — we are designing next-generation infrastructure.

The Role

We are looking for an exceptional algorithmic thinker with deep distributed systems knowledge who can operate at competitive-programming level...