Founding Reinforcement Learning Engineer

About the Role

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Compensation & Benefits

Location

• On-site in San Francisco, California, United States. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in reinforcement learning or machine learning engineering.
• Strong Python skills and deep experience with PyTorch or JAX.
• Practical experience training models with reinforcement learning methods, including policy gradients, reward modeling, or RLHF.
• Experience with distributed training, GPU infrastructure, RL environments, reward functions, training pipelines, and model or agent evaluation.
• A track record of taking research ideas into production systems.
• LLM post-training or agent training experience is beneficial, as are RL publications or open-source work and experience with simulation frameworks or training libraries.
• Compensation & Benefits
• Base salary: $125,000 to $200,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
• Location
• On-site in San Francisco, California, United States. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Preferred Qualifications

• A degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related field; a master's or PhD is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reinforcement learning environments, reward functions, and training pipelines.
• Train and fine-tune models using methods such as PPO, GRPO, DPO, RLHF, and RLAIF.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure model and agent performance.
• Run experiments, interpret results, and decide what to explore next.
• Scale training on GPU clusters and keep training pipelines reliable.
• Turn research ideas into production systems.
• Help establish engineering practices and hire future team members.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in reinforcement learning or machine learning engineering.
• Strong Python skills and deep experience with PyTorch or JAX.
• Practical experience training models with reinforcement learning methods, including policy gradients, reward modeling, or RLHF.
• Experience with distributed training, GPU infrastructure, RL environments, reward functions, training pipelines, and model or agent evaluation.
• A track record of taking research ideas into production systems.
• A degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related field; a master's or PhD is a plus.
• LLM post-training or agent training experience is beneficial, as are RL publications or open-source work and experience with simulation frameworks or training libraries.
• Base salary: $125,000 to $200,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
• On-site in San Francisco, California, United States. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.