5-7 years of experience in research and engineering
Proficient in deploying AI tools and technologies
Strong background in post-training frontier models
Ability to write and maintain production-quality code
Proven publication record in relevant fields
Responsibilities
Advance research on long-horizon evaluation and environment design
Build and shape benchmarks for autonomous agents
Investigate and analyze failure modes of existing models
Develop environment simulations for AI training and evaluation
Conduct rigorous experiments to improve agent performance
Collaborate with founding team on interdisciplinary projects
Publish findings and contribute to the research community
Benefits
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
Free team meals
Wellness and learning stipends
Access to top-of-the-line technology
Frequent team outings and activities
Full Job Description
About the role
We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff - Research to help advance the frontier of autonomous agents. You'll work on core research problems in long-horizon evaluation, agent post-training, and environment design, with a focus on understanding where current models fail and how to improve them. As a member of the founding team, you should expect to wear multiple hats: building benchmarks, creating environments, writing production code, and running rigorous experiments. We're looking for people who are excited by hard open-ended problems and want to operate at the intersection of research and engineering. Examples of projects you could work on include:
Developing an advanced environment simulation engine for training & evaluating autonomous AI agents
Investigating failure modes of frontier models
Creating rigorous benchmarks that evaluate how well frontier agents perform on complex, realistic tasks requiring long-horizon reasoning and tool use in dynamic environments
Post-training agents in complex simulation environments
Publishing research
You'll be a good fit if you:
Have strong engineering & research fundamentals and are a prolific user of AI tools
Have experience post-training frontier models
Have experience shipping reliable, production-quality code
Have a track record of publications
Perks:
🪷 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
Free meals with the team
Free Bay Club membership (right next door to our Embarcadero office!)
