Senior Research Scientist – AI

About Primary Far too few of the world's best journalists get the recognition, audience, or rewards their work deserves. Primary is building the infrastructure to change that. Primary Index is the first AI-native ranking system for journalism — the credibility standard for news in the AI economy.

We evaluate individual journalists on the accuracy, depth, and craft of their published work through a purpose-built AI operating against a transparent, published methodology. Building an AI system that can faithfully assess factuality, evidence quality, source reliability, and editorial balance at scale — faithfully enough to earn the trust of journalists and the public — is a genuinely hard problem that requires new methods, not the application of existing ones. That is the work of this team.

We are seeking an exceptional Research Scientist to help define and lead the next generation of AI systems for automated knowledge acquisition, reasoning and evaluation. Working closely with the Chief Scientist and other senior leaders, you will help shape the scientific direction of the Primary’s AI research. You will be expected not only to implement and evaluate novel AI methods, but also to formulate new research questions, design new AI architectures, and identify opportunities to materially advance the state of the art.

Current research programmes include: large-scale evaluation and scoring of published journalism; AI systems that assess factuality, neutrality, evidence quality and sourc