CareerPlan

Model Engineer

Palo Alto, CAFull-time$160k–$250k2026-11-10 → 2026-11-11
On-site

Core

Research Scientist driving effective Reinforcement Learning (RL) and mid-training research for frontier coding agents and Super Intelligence stack.

Role type

Research Scientist (RL & Mid-training)

Builds

Frontier coding agents, RL environments, and evaluation tasks for the Super Intelligence stack

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, C++, RL algorithms, distributed training, model scaling, data quality, experiment design, reward design

Preferred skills

Ambiguous research ownership, data science, RL fundamentals, frontier-scale model training, original ML contributions

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, JAX, Rust, C++, Colossus supercomputers

Responsibilities

Design and run rigorous experiments to improve model capability; Improve data recipes through quality and deduplication; Define RL data and rewards including grader design; Advance training science from architecture to post-training; Build evals to expose model weaknesses; Partner with engineers to scale promising results

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC