Long-Horizon AI Research Engineer

Orin Labs

San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 280,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Orin Labs in San Francisco is hiring researchers to build agents, train models, and design benchmarks that work in deployment. You will own research end-to-end, bridging long-horizon tasks, memory, planning, and reliable operation with real test data, translating insights into production systems.

The role emphasizes shipping impactful work over credentials, with PhD or post-doc candidates encouraged and a focus on continual learning, test-time adaptation, and architectures that retain context

Qualifications

  • PhD or post-doc in ML/AI with demonstrated research impact.
  • Experience shipping research to production systems.
  • Strong ability to connect research to real deployment data.

Responsibilities

  • Own long-horizon learning benchmarks and evaluation suites.
  • Build agents, train models, and design environments and evals.
  • Set research direction and translate findings into production.

Skills

Continual learning
Test-time training
Long-context architectures
Long-horizon tasks

Education

PhD or Post‑doc research

Job description

Orin Labs in San Francisco is hiring researchers to build agents, train models, and design benchmarks that work in deployment. You will own research end-to-end, bridging long-horizon tasks, memory, planning, and reliable operation with real test data, translating insights into production systems.

The role emphasizes shipping impactful work over credentials, with PhD or post-doc candidates encouraged and a focus on continual learning, test-time adaptation, and architectures that retain context

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