AI Research Scientist - RL & Security Systems

Enclosure

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Ownership over research direction
Close collaboration with frontier AI"

Job summary

Enclosure in San Francisco is seeking an exceptional RL researcher to own a significant portion of RL research as an IC. We value curiosity, grit, and practical results over formal degrees.

You will contribute across RL for language models, tool use, and multi-agent systems, collaborating with security and infrastructure teams to advance frontier AI research with real-world impact. This role offers ownership over research direction, deep technical challenges, and a collaborative, low-ego team

Qualifications

  • Experience with large-scale RL or post-training for language models, RLVR, policy optimization, or outcome-based RL.
  • Experience designing verifiable tasks, environments, graders, reward functions, or curricula for long-horizon tasks.
  • Experience training and evaluating tool-using, coding, or multi-agent systems, including agent harness design.
  • Strong experimental judgment, including evaluating transfer, diagnosing reward hacking or specification gaming, and iterating from noisy results.
  • Strong ML and software engineering fundamentals, with the ability to work across training, data, evals, infrastructure, and product.

Responsibilities

  • Own a significant part of RL research as an IC.
  • Collaborate across training, data, evals, infrastructure, and product to drive systems-level improvements.

Skills

RL research
Large-scale RL
Policy optimization
Experimentation
ML fundamentals
Software engineering

Job description

Enclosure in San Francisco is seeking an exceptional RL researcher to own a significant portion of RL research as an IC. We value curiosity, grit, and practical results over formal degrees.

You will contribute across RL for language models, tool use, and multi-agent systems, collaborating with security and infrastructure teams to advance frontier AI research with real-world impact. This role offers ownership over research direction, deep technical challenges, and a collaborative, low-ego team

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