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Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Improvement

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2025-10-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design feedback-driven AI systems that continuously evaluate, detect weaknesses, and implement self-improvements through reflection and retraining to compound capabilities.

Role type

Senior IC applied AI researcher (system self-improvement)

Builds

Autonomous, self-evolving AI architectures for enterprise operations

Domain

Enterprise AI, Reinforcement Learning, Meta-optimization

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Building feedback-driven systems, Compound AI systems, Agentic collaboration, Reflective reasoning, Reward modeling, Self-evaluation techniques, Prototyping, Data analysis

Preferred skills

Experience with ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts, Top-tier research publications, Daily AI tool usage

Technologies

ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity

Responsibilities

Design systems that detect weaknesses and generate corrective hypotheses, Study self-model formation and reflective reasoning, Bridge reinforcement learning and interpretability for autonomous evolution, Build prototypes to prove effectiveness to enterprise stakeholders

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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