Research Engineer (Reinforcement Learning)

Requirements

  • Strong Python engineering skills
  • Experience carrying a model from raw data through to production
  • Ability to treat data as the product, focusing on coverage, diversity, and leakage
  • Design models with awareness that they may exploit weak reward signals
  • Comfortable working with GPUs and understanding their limitations
  • Good judgment on when to train models and when not to
  • Experience working collaboratively in a remote environment

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with post-training techniques: fine-tuning, reward design, reinforcement learning such as GRPO
  • Familiarity with RL and fine-tuning frameworks like TRL, verl, or OpenRLHF or custom training loops
  • Experience with fast rollouts using vLLM or SGLang, and multi-GPU training with FSDP
  • Experience training tool-using or multi-turn agents
  • Background in building execution sandboxes, verifiers, evaluation harnesses, or tooling for other engineers
  • Knowledge of open-weight model families such as Qwen or Llama, and techniques like LoRA

What You'll Be Doing

  • Building environments and verifiers that models train against
  • Owning the synthetic data pipeline from generation through quality gates
  • Running end-to-end training experiments and explaining model changes
  • Building evaluations that releases must pass
  • Choosing and adapting open-weight base models for specific tasks
  • Ensuring trained behaviors hold for both voice and text agents
  • Shipping models to production and continuously improving them based on real usage

Perks and Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform
  • Collaboration with a small, senior team that values craft and creativity
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
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