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MTS - Agent Research

San Jose💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-09-25 → 2026-09-26

Core

Set research direction and spearhead development of self-improving agents to complete difficult, long-running engineering tasks for hardware infrastructure.

Role type

Senior IC research lead (agentic systems)

Builds

Self-improving agent systems, custom models, and evaluation frameworks for engineering workflows

Domain

Frontier AI infrastructure, hardware co-design, inference systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

research judgment, engineering ability, agent development for complex tasks, LLM post-training (SFT/RL), experiment design under constraints, technical direction

Preferred skills

ASIC design, accelerator kernels, large-scale compute infrastructure

Technologies

SFT, RL, distillation, in-context learning, agent harnesses

Responsibilities

Own research agenda for agentic systems, work with domain engineers to diagnose agent failures, develop systems for long-running tasks (memory, context, tool use), build evaluations for correctness and efficiency, train custom models using SFT/RL, scale concurrent agent experiments

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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