Research Engineer – RL & Post-Training Evaluation (Equity)

techire ai; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401k

Unlimited PTO

Relocation sponsorship

Job summary

Techire AI is seeking a research-focused candidate to push the boundaries of post-training evaluation for LLMs. You’ll bridge academic insights with practical deployments, drafting papers and implementing scalable evaluation frameworks in live systems.

Location: San Francisco, on-site or hybrid. Salary up to $300K base (DOE) plus meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits including 401k, unlimited PTO, relocation and sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Research experience in post-training, reinforcement learning, or evaluation for LLMs.
• Strong understanding of transformer models and experimental design.
• Publication record at leading venues (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP).

Responsibilities

• The work blends deep research with hands-on implementation in live systems.
• Publish and defend research findings across venues.
• Develop evaluation frameworks and simulations to measure progress.

Skills

Post-training RL research

Transformer models

Academic publishing

Education

PhD or equivalent research experience in CS, ML, NLP, or RL

Job description

Techire AI is seeking a research-focused candidate to push the boundaries of post-training evaluation for LLMs. You’ll bridge academic insights with practical deployments, drafting papers and implementing scalable evaluation frameworks in live systems.

Location: San Francisco, on-site or hybrid. Salary up to $300K base (DOE) plus meaningful equity and comprehensive benefits including 401k, unlimited PTO, relocation and sponsorship.