Machine Learning Research Scientist (Autonomous Research Lab)

A small AI research lab is building software that carries out machine learning research with very little human involvement. It is looking for a researcher who has trained models themselves and wants to push that automation further, working closely with the founder.

The work

• Build systems that propose ideas, run experiments and improve models for customers on their own
• Apply reinforcement learning and fine-tuning to reasoning models so that parts of the research cycle can be automated
• Partner with engineers to turn research prototypes into dependable production systems
• Follow new results across the field and fold the useful ones into the lab’s approach

Profile

• Two to eight years in AI research or engineering, with a PhD or comparable research record in ML, CS or a quantitative field
• Hands-on post-training or RL work, or evolutionary-style methods, ideally on large language models or agent models
• Publications at leading ML venues, or equivalent work inside an industrial research group
• Solid Python skills and the ability to ship production-quality code without close supervision
• Curiosity about automating scientific discovery and comfort exploring open-ended directions alone
• Large-scale distributed training experience is a bonus

Hybrid arrangement, based in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. Visa transfers are considered.