Research Engineer: Post-Training & Agentic RL Platforms

Storm3

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 250,000 - 400,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package
Competitive salary
Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Fundamental AI Research Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Research Engineer – Post-Training, Agents, Evals to advance LLM post-training and agentic infrastructure. This hybrid role focuses on building RL environments, evaluation harnesses, and scalable post-training platforms to accelerate cutting-edge research.

The candidate will contribute to deployment of large-scale models, publish results, and collaborate with top researchers.

Qualifications

  • PhD in CS/ML/Maths preferred.
  • 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.

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 environments
Evaluation harnesses
Agentic infrastructure
Post-training platforms

Education

PhD in CS / ML / Maths

Job description

Fundamental AI Research Institute in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Research Engineer – Post-Training, Agents, Evals to advance LLM post-training and agentic infrastructure. This hybrid role focuses on building RL environments, evaluation harnesses, and scalable post-training platforms to accelerate cutting-edge research.

The candidate will contribute to deployment of large-scale models, publish results, and collaborate with top researchers.

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