Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

About the role

As a Research Engineer on our team you will work end to end, identifying and addressing key blockers on the path to scientific AGI. Strong candidates should have familiarity with language model training, evaluation, and inference, be comfortable triaging research ideas and diagnosing problems and enjoy working collaboratively. Familiarity with performance optimization, distributed systems, vm/sandboxing/container deployment, and large scale data pipelines is highly encouraged.

Responsibilities

• Working across the full stack to identify and remove bottlenecks preventing progress toward scientific AGI
• Develop approaches to address long-horizon task completion and complex reasoning challenges essential for scientific discovery
• Scaling research ideas from prototype to production
• Create benchmarks and evaluation frameworks to measure model capabilities in scientific workflows and computer use
• Implement distributed training systems and performance optimizations to support large-scale model development

Qualifications

• Have 8+ years of ML research experience
• Be familiar with large scale language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
• Enjoy obsessively iterating on immediate blockers towards longterm goals
• Thrive working collaboratively to solve problems
• Show strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify technical bottlenecks in complex systems
• Can translate research concepts into scalable engineering solutions
• Have a track record of shipping ML systems that tackle challenging multi-step reasoning problems

Additional Qualifications

• Expertise with performance optimization for language model inference and training
• Experience with computer use automation and agentic AI systems
• A history working on reinforcement learning approaches for complex task completion
• Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud deployment at scale
• Experience working with large scale data problem solving and infrastructure
• Published research or practical experience in scientific AI applications or long-horizon reasoning

Annual Compensation Range

The annual compensation range for this role is $350,000 - $850,000 USD.

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based Hybrid Policy

We currently expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa Sponsorship

We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.