Research Engineer (Reinforcement Learning)
LiveKit · North America · APJ · EMEA
CHECKED 3H AGO
Infrastructureremote$135k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build post-training for voice and text agents operating over long horizons.
- Own environments, verifiers, and evaluations that releases must clear.
- Ship models into production and keep improving them on real usage.
What they offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
Ideal candidate
Strong Python engineer who has shipped models from data to production and treats data quality as the product. Pragmatic about GPUs and training tradeoffs, designs against reward hacking, and thrives collaborating remotely.
Requirements
- Strong Python engineer
- Have carried a model from raw data through to production
- Treat data as the product: coverage, diversity, leakage
- Assume a model will exploit a weak reward, and design against it
- Comfortable with GPUs and honest about their limits
- Know when to train, and when not to
- Comfortable working collaboratively in a remote environment
- remote policy
- Remote
Lab profile
About LiveKit
Infrastructure layer to build, test, deploy, and scale voice and agentic AI
What they build
- Agents development platform
- Real-time voice and video infrastructure
- Agent testing, deployment and observability tools
Known for
- Real-time multimodal voice and video
- Production scale with billions of calls
- Trusted by OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce, Spotify
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Billions of calls per year
- 100,000+ developers