Staff Research Engineer, Discovery Team

Highlights

• Build an AI scientist capable of pushing the scientific frontier.
• Improve models' ability to use computers for long-horizon tasks.
• Remove bottlenecks blocking progress toward scientific AGI.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space for collaboration

Ideal candidate

An experienced ML researcher-engineer who loves iterating end-to-end on hard blockers and collaborating deeply. You care about building powerful, beneficial AI and advancing scientific discovery through long-horizon reasoning.

Requirements

• 8+ years of ML research experience
• Familiar with large-scale language model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
• Enjoy iterating on immediate blockers towards long-term goals
• Thrive working collaboratively to solve problems
• Expertise in performance optimization and distributed computing systems
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify technical bottlenecks
• Can translate research concepts into scalable engineering solutions
• Track record of shipping ML systems tackling multi-step reasoning problems
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience