Research Engineer, Universes

About the role

We're looking for Research Engineers to help us build the next generation of training environments for capable and safe agentic AI. This role blends research and engineering responsibilities, requiring you to both implement novel approaches and contribute to research direction.

Responsibilities:

• Build the next generation of agentic environments
• Build rigorous evaluations that measure real capability
• Collaborate across research and infrastructure teams to ship environments into production training
• Debug and iterate rapidly across research and production ML stacks
• Contribute to research culture through technical discussions and collaborative problem-solving

Requirements

You'll need to have:

• Strong software engineering skills and can build robust infrastructure
• Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)

You May Be a Good Fit If You Are:

• Highly impact-driven — you care about outcomes, not activity
• Operate with high agency
• Have good research taste or senior technical experience, demonstrating good judgment in identifying what actually matters in complex problem spaces
• Balance research exploration with engineering implementation
• Passionate about the potential impact of AI and are committed to developing safe and beneficial systems
• Comfortable with uncertainty and adapt quickly as the landscape shifts
• Have strong software engineering skills and can build robust infrastructure
• Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)

Senior experience in a relevant technical field even if transitioning domains

Deep expertise in sandboxing, containerization, VM infrastructure, or distributed systems

Published influential work in relevant ML areas