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Research Engineer Graduate (Agentic Arch) - 2027 Start (PhD)

San Jose, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-28

Core

Research and deploy reliable long-horizon AI agents that reason over large codebases and complete consequential engineering work across distributed production systems.

Role type

Research Engineer (AI Agents)

Builds

Scalable agent infrastructure for orchestration, evaluation, and reliable execution across large codebases and engineering toolchains.

Domain

AI Agents, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Agent planning and reasoning, model post-training, reinforcement learning, memory and context systems, tool learning, multi-agent systems, agent evaluation, Python/C++/Go/Java programming, experimental design

Preferred skills

Influential publications in top-tier venues, experience building LLM agents or agent platforms, hands-on with execution-feedback loops, distributed agent runtimes, scalable evaluation systems, CI/CD and testing infrastructure

Technologies

Python, C++, Go, Java, Reinforcement Learning, Large Language Models

Responsibilities

Conduct frontier research on reliable long-horizon agents, advance agent capabilities in hierarchical planning and reasoning, co-design agents through post-training and reinforcement learning, build scalable agent infrastructure, apply new methods in representative workflows like cross-repository changes and incident diagnosis, translate research into production systems, collaborate with researchers and infrastructure teams

Seniority

PhD level, Research Engineer

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