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Applied Research - RL & Agents

Flexible Work (San Francisco or hybrid-remote)🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$300,000🗓 2026-09-25

Core

Designing and implementing next-generation AI agents, reinforcement learning (RL) methods, and post-training infrastructure to align large models with real-world workloads.

Role type

Senior Applied Research Engineer (RL & Agents)

Builds

Open superintelligence stack, agent frameworks, RL training services, and evaluation harnesses

Domain

Frontier AI, Reinforcement Learning, Agent Systems, Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | research

Required skills

Machine learning engineering, Reinforcement Learning (RL), Post-training methods, Agent frameworks, Distributed training/inference, Technical writing, Research contributions

Preferred skills

Web programming (React, TypeScript), LLM evaluations, Synthetic data generation, Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Technologies

DSPy, LangGraph, MCP, Stagehand, vLLM, sglang, Accelerate, Ray, Torch, Prometheus, Grafana

Responsibilities

Design and iterate on AI agents for workflow automation and decision-making; Develop RL and post-training methods (RLHF, RLVR, GRPO) for model alignment; Build evaluation harnesses to measure reasoning and agentic behavior; Architect distributed training/inference pipelines for scalability; Prototype multi-agent and memory-augmented systems; Translate research objectives into technical requirements for product teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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