CareerPlan

Applied Research - Agentic RL

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

Core

Building reinforcement learning systems for tool-using, multi-agent, and long-horizon AI agents that reason over complex tasks and improve from experience.

Role type

Applied Research Scientist (Agentic RL)

Builds

Open-source RL systems, scalable experimental harnesses, and production-grade agent training pipelines.

Domain

Frontier AI, Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning, Scalable ML Systems, Agent Environments, Experimental Design, Python, Inference/Training Infrastructure

Preferred skills

Publications, Open-source contributions, Benchmarks, Shipped products

Technologies

Python, RL frameworks, Multi-agent environments

Responsibilities

Design credit-assignment methods for multi-agent trajectories, build scalable training environments for long-horizon tasks, detect and mitigate reward hacking, develop reusable evaluation harnesses, connect algorithm choices to training/inference behavior.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC