Goaly AI
AI Research Scientist - Early Career (PHD/MS)
Palo Alto, CA, USA · On-site · Entry level · Full-time · Posted Aug 8, 2026
- Experience
- Designed for researchers completing or recently completing a PhD, or candidates with an equivalent record of original research; no years specified.
- Education
- PhD in computer science, machine learning, statistics, mathematics, or a related field—or an equivalent record of original, technically rigorous research.
- Visa sponsorship
- H-1B sponsorship and OPT/CPT support available.
About the job
Conduct research on agentic reinforcement learning and post-training, design rigorous experiments, and turn findings into model improvements and production-ready systems.
What you'll do
- Develop research questions, methods, evaluations, and experiments for agentic capabilities, reliability, and scaling.
- Implement and integrate research methods, datasets, environments, verifiers, and evaluations into training and production systems.
- Analyze model behavior, communicate findings, and collaborate with research and engineering teams to advance the roadmap.
What they ask for
- Completing or recently completed a PhD in a relevant field, or an equivalent record of original, technically rigorous research.
- Strong machine-learning, reinforcement-learning, LLM, agents, or ML-systems research record, demonstrated through publications, preprints, open-source work, or substantial independent projects.
- Excellent Python skills and hands-on experience with a modern deep-learning framework such as PyTorch or JAX.
- Experimental rigor and engineering ability to build research infrastructure and turn ideas into working systems.
Nice to have
- Experience in agentic reinforcement learning, post-training, preference learning, reward or verifier modeling, evaluation, or environment design.
- Experience with large-model training, distributed inference, high-throughput rollout systems, or performance-sensitive ML infrastructure.
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX
AI focus
Research and develop agentic reinforcement learning, post-training, model evaluation, environments, verifiers, and scaling methods; translate results into improved models and production systems.
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