CareerPlan

Applied Research - Scientific AI

San FranciscoRemoteFull-time$150k–$300k2026-10-22 → 2026-11-11
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Build and post-train autonomous agents for scientific research, creating long-horizon environments where agents search literature, run code, and choose experiments within fixed budgets.

Role type

Senior IC Applied Research Scientist (Scientific AI)

Builds

Autonomous research agents, long-horizon experimental environments, and evaluation systems for scientific tools and datasets

Domain

Frontier AI, Scientific Computing, Autonomous Research

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning, Multi-agent systems, Post-training techniques, Python, Experimental design, Reproducible research, RLHF, Domain modeling

Preferred skills

Autonomous research, ML for science, Scientific computing, Reproducible computational research

Technologies

Python, RL, Multi-agent frameworks, Scientific databases, Code execution environments

Responsibilities

Build long-horizon environments for agent-based scientific research; Design verifiers for correctness, novelty, and reproducibility; Develop RL and multi-agent methods for hypothesis testing; Connect programmatic checks and expert feedback to training loops; Maintain reproducible code, data, and experiment configurations; Release reusable environments and research code