Vetted Research Assistants in the NYC Metro

Sabrina Sain

Screened

Junior Management Consultant specializing in strategy, org design, and private equity due diligence

New York, NY2y exp

“Bain consultant with medtech spin-off/NewCo operating model experience, driving cross-functional workflow optimization, headcount planning, and cost reduction through scenario modeling and executive alignment. Currently on externship at Mediamint, where they built a centralized, standardized pitch-collateral repository and operating cadence to reduce exec time spent on decks and improve GTM consistency.”

“Python backend engineer focused on high-throughput document/PDF processing systems, building end-to-end pipelines that extract structured content for downstream NLP use cases. Demonstrates strong practical MLOps-adjacent infrastructure skills: Kubernetes deployments, GitLab CI, GitOps workflows, and an incremental migration to AWS using EC2/Lambda tradeoffs. Deep hands-on optimization experience (selective OCR, layout-aware extraction, parallelism, caching, idempotency, and backpressure/autoscaling).”

“Robotics engineering intern and mechanical engineering master’s student who bridges hardware testing and ML/ROS2 software: built a PyTorch model to map motor test data across motor types using electrical specs (Kv/Kt/R/L) and validated it against new motors to meet strict torque/thermal accuracy targets. Also integrated CNN-based perception into ROS2 for real-time navigation and implemented MPC with time-synchronized multi-topic messaging to avoid stale-data control issues.”

“Operations/business leader at Rent the Runway who led a cross-functional, Board-visible redesign and network-wide rollout of the company’s garment bag—a >$5M CapEx/OpEx initiative central to luxury customer experience. Known for aligning executives with conflicting priorities (cost vs CX), driving KPI-based operating rhythms, and delivering vendor/manufacturing wins that improved unit cost while upgrading product quality; previously led legal operations with strong confidentiality/privilege discipline.”

“HRBP/Employee Relations professional with Accenture and Clyde & Co experience, combining strong people analytics with risk-focused change management. Notably coded and analyzed four years of exit interview data to drive targeted retention and compensation actions across offices, and partnered with North America HR/Finance leadership on shared-services transition planning involving protected-class risk analysis.”

“Backend/AI systems engineer who has shipped production LLM agents focused on prompt engineering, code generation, and incident-response automation. Stands out for combining strong agent orchestration and reliability engineering with measurable business impact, including 60-70% cost reductions, 45% lower monthly LLM spend, and a 5x increase in developer iteration speed.”

“Postdoctoral/PhD researcher focused on Alzheimer's disease who has built scalable end-to-end AI systems across pathology imaging, transcriptomics, and longitudinal neuroimaging. Particularly strong in turning novel research ideas into robust Python pipelines on GPU/HPC infrastructure, with pathologist-facing impact and scientifically novel findings such as image-derived disease severity trajectories and subtype discovery.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered investor research feature for a fintech product, focused on grounded answers and minimizing hallucinations. Implemented retrieval-quality and evidence-coverage gating with clear refusal fallbacks, and evaluates systems with regression tests and metrics like correct-refusal rate, hallucination rate, and latency. Comfortable orchestrating workflows with LangChain or custom Python depending on production needs.”

“ML/LLM infrastructure engineer who built and shipped a production internal evaluation + failure-analysis agent (Arthur AI / R3AI context) that orchestrated end-to-end benchmarks with deterministic lineage, regression detection, and root-cause reporting at 5,000+ benchmarks/week. Also built backend observability and data validation systems for analytics pipelines at FullStory processing ~3.4B weekly events, emphasizing schema validation, quarantine fallbacks, and idempotent operations.”

Utkarsh Srivastava

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and medical imaging

New York City, USA3y exp

“At Fileread, the candidate built and deployed an LLM-powered legal document classification and retrieval layer for an agentic extraction system that turns unstructured legal PDFs into structured tables with line-level citations. They productionized a RAG-style pipeline (ingestion, embeddings, retrieval, reranking, generation) and report 95%+ F1 across 70+ legal categories, emphasizing rigorous evaluation and close collaboration with legal domain experts for high-stakes precision.”

Hari Chandana Kasula

Screened

Entry Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and recommender systems

New York, NY0y exp

“Built and shipped an end-to-end podcast recommendation system exposed via a Flask API and React UI, explicitly balancing relevance, diversity (MMR), and safety constraints while meeting ~200ms latency targets. Also implemented a production-style RAG/information-extraction pipeline using web retrieval, spaCy NER, and fine-tuned SpanBERT with guardrails and evaluation loops (precision/recall/F1) to tune confidence thresholds and improve reliability.”