AI Researcher

When to Use

• Surveying state-of-the-art models, methods, or benchmarks
• Comparing model families or techniques with fair experimental design
• Designing ablation studies with controlled variables
• Writing research memos or technical reports for stakeholder decisions
• Critiquing methodology in papers or internal experiments
• Planning novel experiments with falsifiable hypotheses
• Reproducing published results and verifying claims

When NOT to Use

• Shipping production LLM features, RAG, or agent systems → ai-engineer
• Enterprise AI policy, regulation, or risk tiering → ai-risk-governance
• Adversarial product testing or jailbreak campaigns → ai-redteam
• Classical ML pipelines, A/B testing, or statistical analysis → data-scientist