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Research Engineer - Reinforcement Learning

🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$350,000🗓 2026-09-27 → 2026-09-28

Core

Design and implement end-to-end pipelines for synthetic data generation and orchestration to support large-scale AI model training and inference.

Role type

Senior IC research engineer (reinforcement learning & synthetic data)

Builds

Open-source libraries, distributed RL frameworks, and a full-stack platform for post-training frontier AI models.

Domain

Frontier AI, Reinforcement Learning, Synthetic Data Generation, AI Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed inference techniques, MLOps, Large-scale AI model training pipelines, Compute & memory optimization, Open-source framework development

Preferred skills

Publishing in top-tier AI conferences, Technical writing for layman audiences

Technologies

vllm, sglang

Responsibilities

Lead research for synthetic data generation pipelines, Optimize AI inference workloads for performance and cost, Contribute to open-source distributed RL frameworks, Publish research at ICML/NeurIPS, Write technical blogs distilling project outcomes

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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