Causal Labs
Member of Technical Staff — ML Research, Planning
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 20, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Singapore
About the job
Researches and builds planning methods that condition a learned physics model on objectives and generate actions to achieve them.
What you'll do
- Develop planning, control, and decision-making methods for learned physics models, including under uncertainty in high-dimensional continuous state spaces.
- Build objective and constraint interfaces and methods for generating actions that satisfy them; evaluate decision quality through experiments and ablations.
- Work across data, models, evaluation, and infrastructure to take research ideas from prototype to scaled training runs.
What they ask for
- Strong grasp of machine learning fundamentals and depth in at least one relevant area, such as reinforcement learning, planning and control, decision-making under uncertainty, model-based RL, or post-training of large models.
- Experience training models and analyzing experimental results through careful analysis and ablation studies.
- Familiarity with reasoning, planning, or acting with learned models.
- Track record of turning open-ended research problems into working systems.
AI focus
Build the planning layer for a Large Physics foundation Model, enabling objective-conditioned planning and action generation for physical systems.
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