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Senior Staff Research Engineer/Scientist

Santa Clara, California, us💼 Full-time💰 $231,500–$231,500🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead research on enterprise agents that reason over multimodal information, use tools, and execute reliable actions across stateful workflows.

Role type

Staff Research Scientist (Agentic AI & Model Post-Training)

Builds

Enterprise agent systems, training environments, evaluation benchmarks, and production-ready model improvements.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Agentic Systems, Enterprise Software

Deliverable

production ML models | research | infrastructure

Required skills

Machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, large language model training, agentic AI (tool use, planning, memory), distributed training, Python, PyTorch, experimental design, software engineering

Preferred skills

Multimodal modeling, computer vision, speech/audio, synthetic data generation, automated experimentation, GPU infrastructure management

Technologies

PyTorch, Python, LLMs, RL, DPO, GRPO, MCP, distributed training stacks

Responsibilities

Design end-to-end research projects for long-horizon agents; research model post-training methods (SFT, RL, DPO); build training environments and benchmarks; run rigorous ablations and scaling experiments; develop distributed pipelines for training and inference; partner with engineering to ship validated methods.

Seniority

Staff, independent technical leadership

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