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Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training Research

New York💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Conducting hands-on post-training research for Large Language Models (LLMs) to optimize training, deployment, and production observation, bridging research bets with production workloads.

Role type

Post-training research scientist (LLM infrastructure)

Builds

Production-ready post-training frameworks, distributed-training approaches, and online training for deployed models.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Post-training LLM research, RL (async/agentic/on-policy), model distillation, long-context RL, routing models, product sense for frontier techniques, shipping research to production, cross-functional collaboration with engineering and customers.

Preferred skills

Experience with speculators, KV injection, blockwise parallel drafting, DiLoCo, evolutionary strategies.

Technologies

LLMs, RL, distributed training, GPU sandboxes, production traffic data.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end post-training research bets, work with customers to train models and integrate learnings, collaborate with external research labs, work with engineering to turn techniques into products, help shape the research agenda.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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