Agentic AI Research Engineer – RL & Codegen

Normal Computing Corporation; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Normal Computing seeks an AI Research Engineer to push the frontier of agentic LLMs and reinforcement learning for our agentic code generation tool. You’ll design and run experiments, build agents, curate datasets from complex technical documents (e.g., chip specifications), and create rigorous evaluations.

You’ll write production‑quality research code and work closely with engineering to ship improvements to customers. Leadership not required—impact through research and building is.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS/AI/ML (or equivalent research experience) with publications ideally in multi-agent RL, agentic AI, or RL for language/code.
• Strong Python and ML framework experience (PyTorch preferred; JAX/HF a plus).
• Demonstrated ability to turn research into working systems; reproducibility mindset (tests, seeds, configs, logging).
• Experience designing eval harnesses and success metrics for sequential/agentic tasks.
• Comfortable with data acquisition/curation from documents/logs; good instincts about data quality and licenses.
• Clear communicator who partners well with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-agent and RL approaches for agentic code generation and tool-use.
• Build research prototypes that integrate with our agentic code generation tool; collaborate to productionize wins.
• Create evaluation suites: task specs, pass/fail checkers, coverage, cost/latency dashboards.
• Acquire and curate datasets from PDFs/logs/tables; generate synthetic data where appropriate; maintain data cards and licensing.
• Analyze experiments with disciplined ablations; document results and decisions.
• Stay current on LLM agents, RL (offline/online, RLHF/RLAIF), constrained decoding, and program synthesis.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Reinforcement Learning

Multi-agent RL

Experiment design

Data curation

Collaboration

Education

PhD in CS/AI/ML

Tools

PyTorch

JAX/HF

Job description

Normal Computing seeks an AI Research Engineer to push the frontier of agentic LLMs and reinforcement learning for our agentic code generation tool. You’ll design and run experiments, build agents, curate datasets from complex technical documents (e.g., chip specifications), and create rigorous evaluations.

You’ll write production‑quality research code and work closely with engineering to ship improvements to customers. Leadership not required—impact through research and building is.