Post-Training AI Research Engineer – RL & Agentic Infra

Storm3

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Fundamental AI Research Institute in San Francisco is seeking researchers experienced in LLM post-training, agentic infrastructure, RL environments, and evaluation harnesses to accelerate flagship AI research. Responsibilities include building and scaling post-training platforms and RL infra, developing benchmarks, contributing to deployment of large-scale models, and publishing results at top conferences.

Join a fast-growing team with ample GPU resources and a collaborative culture, offering a

Qualifications

  • Strong publication record in top conferences, or contribution to leading AI models, datasets and benchmarks.
  • 2+ years industry experience, focused on RL, Evals, Reasoning, Agents or AI infra
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and impacting research direction

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale the post-training platform and RL infrastructure, including developing agentic and evaluation harnesses
  • Develop benchmarks and evaluations for reasoning and agentic capabilities
  • Contribute towards deployment and productionization of large-scale models
  • Publish breakthrough findings and reports in top conferences

Skills

RL
Evaluations
Reasoning
Agents
AI infra
Publications

Job description

Fundamental AI Research Institute in San Francisco is seeking researchers experienced in LLM post-training, agentic infrastructure, RL environments, and evaluation harnesses to accelerate flagship AI research. Responsibilities include building and scaling post-training platforms and RL infra, developing benchmarks, contributing to deployment of large-scale models, and publishing results at top conferences.

Join a fast-growing team with ample GPU resources and a collaborative culture, offering a

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