Research Engineer

Research Engineer – Post-Training, Agents, Evals

Fundamental AI Research Institute

San Francisco Bay Area, USA (hybrid)

$250,000 – $400,000 salary + bonus

Come join one of the only research institutions globally with resources to compete with top AI companies => 10s of 1000s of GPUs and Tier1 talent.

This lab is a playground for state-of-the-art research in LLMs, Reinforcement Learning and Agentic AI.

Hiring for those experienced in LLM Post-Training / Agentic infrastructure, building RL environments
, evaluation harnesses and post-training platforms to accelerate research.

• 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

• PhD in Comp Sci / 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
  
  Comfortable navigating ambiguity and impacting research direction

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing core team that are already pushing AI breakthroughs
• Highly competitive salary package
• Work alongside ambitious and bright superstars from tech and academia
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Relocation package available

San Francisco Bay Area, USA