Drimva

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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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)