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LettaLettaSan Francisco, CA

Research Engineer / Scientist, Post-Training

Pioneers post-training techniques to enhance LLMs for agentic systems, focusing on tool-use, continuous updates, synthetic data infrastructure, and capability evaluations. Requires Python/PyTorch proficiency, post-training expertise, and proven research impact.

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On-siteML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Training models for better agentic tool-use, particularly for context management
  • Designing mechanisms for continuous model weight updates post-deployment without catastrophic forgetting
  • Designing and running experiments to improve understanding of the interplay between data mixtures, training algorithms, and models
  • Building infrastructure for generating and collecting synthetic data at scale
  • Building challenging evals for measuring agentic capabilities

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch)
  • Expertise in post-training techniques (e.g. SFT fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reward models, preference learning)
  • Ability to balance execution speed with empirical rigor
  • Proven track record of impactful research (breakthrough publications and/or open-source contributions)
  • Real-world impact beyond pure academic work

Skills

PythonPyTorchSftReinforcement LearningReward ModelsPreference LearningFine-TuningSynthetic DataLLMs

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