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Research Engineer/Research Scientist, RL/Reasoning

Advances AI capabilities through cutting-edge reinforcement learning research, training intelligent agents for models like o1 and o3. Requires RL research background, strong coding skills, and ability to iterate quickly in a fast-paced environment.

295k – 445k/yr
HybridAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Advance the frontier of AI alignment and capabilities through cutting-edge RL methods.
  • Work at the heart of training intelligent, aligned, and general-purpose agents, including systems powering various models.

Requirements

  • Background in reinforcement learning research.
  • Ability to iterate quickly.
  • Proficient at coding.
  • Comfortable diving into a large ML codebase to debug and improve it.
  • Deep understanding of machine learning and ML applications.

Nice-to-haves

  • Love being on the cutting edge of RL and language model research.
  • Self-starter who takes initiative and ownership of ideas.
  • Value principled approaches, simple experiments, and trustworthy conclusions.
  • Thrive in fast-paced, dynamic, technically complex environments with rapid iteration.

Skills

Reinforcement LearningPyTorchMachine LearningLanguage ModelsGenerative ModelsDeep LearningAi AlignmentJAXComputational Optimization

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