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Research Engineer / Research Scientist - Personal AGI, Personalization

Researches and develops memory and personalization improvements for frontier models through post-training, reinforcement learning, dataset creation, and evaluations. The role requires strong machine-learning expertise, research craftsmanship, and the ability to work across a large codebase with research and product teams.

295k – 555k/yr
HybridAI Research

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Own and pursue a research agenda for improving memory use and personalization in frontier models.
  • Build robust evaluations for tracking modeling improvements.
  • Design, implement, test, and debug code across the research stack.
  • Collaborate closely with research and product teams to influence technical solutions in the product.

Requirements and Qualifications

  • Passion for personalization and building personalized assistants.
  • Experience working with user signals and human data to turn feedback into reliable signals for training and evaluation.
  • Deep understanding of frontier model post-training and machine learning applications.
  • Principled approach and strong research craftsmanship.
  • Comfort diving into a large machine-learning codebase to debug.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and technically complex environment.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days per week in the office.
  • Relocation assistance is available to new employees.

Skills

Machine LearningReinforcement Learningfrontier modelsmodel post-trainingpersonalizationnatural language processingmachine learning codebasesevaluation designdataset creationhuman datauser signals

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