CareerPlan

Sr. Research Scientist - Agent Flywheel

San Francisco, CaliforniaFull-time$164k–$235k2026-11-13

Core

Build the context layer for recursive self-improvement and autofix loops for agents by converting raw production session traces into online signals, calibrated LLM judges, and failure clusters.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (Multi-Agent Systems & Evaluation)

Builds

Online signals, calibrated LLM judges, datasets, reward signals, and RL environments for agent improvement.

Domain

Enterprise AI, Multi-Agent Systems, Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Debugging complex stochastic systems, Designing metrics and evaluations, Experimental rigor and causal thinking, AI research, Software engineering

Preferred skills

Agent systems (coding, long-horizon tool-using), Learning from feedback (post-training, RLHF, reward modeling)

Technologies

LLMs, RL environments, Deep learning frameworks

Responsibilities

Convert multi-turn agent trajectories into datasets and reward signals for post-training. Design benchmarks and RL environments from real customer workloads. Advance evaluation research including online evals on live traffic and automated raters. Keep up with latest developments in deep learning to create new techniques.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC