CareerPlan

AI Resident

San Francisco Bay AreaFull-time$48k2026-07-31 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid · United States

Core

You own one hard problem end-to-end in production Agentic AI, building systems that run real business processes at scale.

Role type

AI Resident (Research & Engineering)

Builds

Self-improving agent harnesses, inference-cost optimization, agent memory, and evaluation infrastructure.

Domain

Enterprise productivity, Agentic AI, Production ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, Post-training (SFT/DPO/RL), Reward modeling, Agent and tool-use systems, Statistical literacy, Honest measurement

Preferred skills

Hands-on post-training with open models, Interactive agent environments, Large-scale trace analysis, Serving and efficiency (vLLM/SGLang), Multi-node GPU training

Technologies

PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, TRL, veRL, OpenRLHF

Responsibilities

Write proposals and build systems end-to-end, Design evaluation metrics and run experiments, Ship code into production codebase with senior mentorship, Analyze production traces for training data, Optimize inference costs and agent efficiency

Seniority

Junior to Mid-level, hands-on IC