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Research Engineer / Scientist, Post-Training
San Francisco Office · Full-time · Posted Feb 4, 2025
About the job
Develops post-training methods and infrastructure to improve LLMs’ capabilities in agentic systems, including tool use, context management, and continual learning.
What you'll do
- Train models for better agentic tool use, especially context management, and develop post-deployment weight updates that avoid catastrophic forgetting.
- Design experiments on data mixtures, training algorithms, and models; build infrastructure for large-scale synthetic data generation and collection.
- Create evaluations for agentic capabilities and publish research through papers, technical reports, blog posts, and open-source code.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
- Expertise in post-training methods, such as SFT fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reward models, or preference learning.
- Ability to balance execution speed with empirical rigor.
- Proven impactful research track record and real-world impact beyond academic work.
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Post-training LLMs for agentic tool use and context management; continual post-deployment learning without catastrophic forgetting; synthetic data and agentic evaluations.
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