Applied Researcher

Haize Labs

$175K — $265K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in applied research, reinforcement learning, or related fields.
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate research and engineering functions.
  • Experience in designing RL environments and developing reward models.
  • Proficient in debugging and evaluating AI agents.
  • Background in both laboratory and startup environments.

Responsibilities

  • Push the boundaries of model capabilities through innovative research.
  • Rapidly create and test RL environments and corresponding reward functions.
  • Optimize agents to perform efficiently across a wide range of business tasks.
  • Develop a research platform connecting domain experts with AI models.
  • Evaluate and observe performance metrics of AI implementations.

Benefits

  • Flexible work locations in NYC or SF.
  • Opportunity for US visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.
  • Generous equity options for long-term growth.
Full Job Description
Our agents are being deployed across many, many verticals. We are hiring an Applied Researcher to 1) turn companies into environments, 2) RL on these environments, and 3) rapidly scale and refine our products in existing verticals. This role spans research (RL, environment design, reward modeling), engineering (building, debugging, evaluating agents), and customer management (scoping, planning, relationship-building).
In this role, you will:
  • Push the pareto frontier of model capabilities
  • Rapidly synthesize RL environments and reward functions / models
  • Fine-tune agents to hillclimb almost any task in any business you can imagine
  • Develop the research platform-observability, evaluation, custom reward models, simulation testing-connecting domain experts to models
You are a great fit if you:
  • Love research, but also love engineering and making money
  • Have a knack for probing model capabilities (e.g. benchmark papers)
  • Want to bring intelligence to real people doing real work in the real world, not just Silicon Valley SaaS companies
Ideal candidates likely:
  • Have spent both time in a lab and in startup land
  • Contribute to popular research frameworks (e.g. Prime-RL, Verl, Harbor, etc.)
  • Spend their free time thinking about where AI is headed, and how to shape its capabilities


Logistics
  • Education requirement: doesn't matter. If you are exceptional, you are exceptional.
  • Location policy: NYC/SF.
  • US visa sponsorship: If you are exceptional, we will sponsor.
Compensation

$175,000 - $265,000 annual salary
And generous equity + benefits

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