Member of Technical Staff - Machine Learning Capabilities

Preference Model

$150K — $200K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong ML fundamentals with broad research interests.
  • Proficiency in Python and systems programming, and at least one of PyTorch or JAX.
  • Ownership mindset with problem-solving skills to drive solutions end-to-end.
  • Passionate about keeping up with evolving ML infrastructure.
  • Ability to meet throughput expectations and adapt quickly based on feedback.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build RL environments and reward functions for ML tasks.
  • Develop expertise in ML research, training, and inference infrastructure.
  • Collaborate to innovate on tools and processes for environment building.

Benefits

  • Competitive cash and equity compensation (top 10% in the field).
  • High ownership in a fast-paced startup environment.
  • Collaborate with leading machine learning engineers.
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits.
  • 401K match program available.
  • Daily onsite lunch provided to staff.
  • Weekly snack provisions on site.
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation support offered.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're hiring Machine Learning Engineers to design and build reinforcement learning environments to safely advance model capabilities in machine learning research and engineering. Specifically, you'll be teaching frontier models to do the work of an ML engineer or researcher at a frontier lab.

This role blends research and engineering. It will require you to stay up to date with the latest research, develop novel approaches, and realize them in code. You will have full ownership and autonomy of the environments you build. Your work will include designing and implementing RL environments, conducting experiments and evaluations, delivering your work into production training runs, and collaborating with other researchers and engineers.

You will join our Capabilities org, a small, high-ownership team and contribute directly to the data layer that powers frontier LLM capability.

Note: This role is only for experienced ML Engineers. We have a separate opening for New Grads.

What You Will Do:
  • Design and build RL environments and reward functions that produce clean, learnable signals for frontier models on ML research and engineering tasks
  • Build deep expertise across the frontier of ML research, training, and inference infrastructure
  • Collaborate with others to brainstorm and create new ideas and tools to improve the environment building process
What We are Looking For (Qualifications):
  • You have strong ML fundamentals and broad research interests. You read many papers or tutorials, understand topics deeply and have the creativity to translate them into RLVR problems
  • Proficiency in Python and systems programming and at least one of PyTorch or JAX
  • Problem solvers who take ownership and drives solutions end-to-end
  • Passion for staying current with the rapidly evolving ML infrastructure landscape
  • Ability to meet throughput expectations and respond quickly to feedback
You may be a good fit if you also:
  • Have expert knowledge in an active DL/ML research area, with publications or public code to show for it. Research experience (PhD, MS) is a big plus
  • Have deep understanding of transformer internals, training/inference of modern LLMs, experience with inference libraries (vLLM, SGLang, etc)
  • Have strong expertise in kernel development (CUDA, Triton, Pallas)
  • Have built complex interactive RL environments
What We Offer:
  • Competitive cash and equity compensation (>90th percentile)
  • Ownership and autonomy in a fast moving startup environment
  • Opportunity to work with top machine learning engineers
  • Health, vision, dental, benefits
  • 401K match
  • Lunch provided everyday onsite
  • Weekly snack orders
  • Visa sponsorship & relocation support available


We value diverse perspectives and experiences. If you're excited about this role but don't check every box, we still encourage you to apply.

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