Architect Labs
Member of Technical Staff - ML Research
Palo Alto · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Feb 10, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, EECS, Mathematics, or a closely related field; alternatively, BS/MS with a strong research engineering background.
About the job
Conduct fundamental research and build production-ready reinforcement learning and post-training workflows for AI models used in chip design, verification, and exploration.
What you'll do
- Co-design and implement reinforcement learning environments, algorithms, reward models, and reward-signal experiments.
- Build, scale, and improve model fine-tuning, evaluation, and test-time optimization pipelines.
- Collaborate with research teams to productionize emerging techniques and debug training pipelines and model behavior.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in reinforcement learning and post-training, with a track record of deploying models from research into real-world use.
- Experience building end-to-end ML pipelines and using RL and fine-tuning for LLMs and code models on reasoning, tool-use, and structured coding tasks.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience with complex ML systems, large-scale distributed systems, high-performance computing, and distributed training frameworks.
- Ability to analyze and debug training, and to prototype, benchmark, and productionize reliable training pipelines.
Nice to have
- Post-training work at a frontier lab; publications in top ML or EDA venues; or experience as a founding ML engineer/researcher or early hire at an AI deeptech startup.
- Background in electrical/computer engineering, computer architecture, or chip-design and verification processes.
Tools
PyTorch, CUDA, QLoRA, ZeRO
AI focus
Research and train AI models for chip design, verification, and exploration, including reinforcement learning, reward modeling, fine-tuning, evaluation, and test-time optimization.
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