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Member of Technical Staff - Research

Conducts applied research on long-horizon autonomous AI agents, focusing on evaluation, post-training, environment design, and benchmarks to improve frontier models. Builds simulations, runs experiments, ships production code, and publishes findings.

200k – 350kSan Francisco, CAAI ResearchOnsite

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Advance the frontier of autonomous agents through core research in long-horizon evaluation, agent post-training, and environment design.
  • Understand where current models fail and how to improve them.
  • Build benchmarks, create environments, write production code, and run rigorous experiments.
  • Develop advanced environment simulation engines for training & evaluating autonomous AI agents.
  • Investigate failure modes of frontier models.
  • Create rigorous benchmarks for complex, realistic tasks requiring long-horizon reasoning and tool use in dynamic environments.
  • Post-training agents in complex simulation environments.
  • Publish research.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering & research fundamentals and prolific user of AI tools.
  • Experience post-training frontier models.
  • Experience shipping reliable, production-quality code.
  • Track record of publications.

Perks

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k).
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Free meals with the team.
  • Wellness stipend & learning stipend.
  • Top of the line tech.
  • Frequent team activities and outings.

Skills

Reinforcement LearningAI AgentsSimulation EnvironmentsPost-TrainingFrontier ModelsLong-Horizon ReasoningBenchmarksPythonMachine LearningResearch Publication

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