Drimva

NextToken

Member of Technical Staff - Research Engineering

Mountain View +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 24, 2026

Location
Mountain View
San Francisco

About the job

Develop data, evaluations, and post-training methods that improve specialized language models and agents on real product tasks, and bring successful research into customer applications.

What you'll do

  • Design and run post-training experiments, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and distillation.
  • Build synthetic data pipelines, agent environments, reward models, verifiers, and benchmarks for training and evaluation.
  • Improve experiment and inference efficiency, deploy promising approaches in customer applications, and communicate findings through writing, publications, or open source.

What they ask for

  • Practical understanding of modern post-training methods, including RLVR, GRPO, and OPSD, with depth in at least one relevant area.
  • Familiarity with PyTorch or JAX training execution and ability to inspect research code and diagnose training problems.
  • Experience investigating model training, evaluations, agent environments, or related ML research.
  • Strong experimental judgment and ability to plan research, navigate unfamiliar systems, and explain technical decisions.

Nice to have

  • Experience with agentic RL, reward modeling, synthetic data, distillation, or efficient inference.
  • Research papers, open-source contributions, or independently built systems.

Tools

PyTorch, JAX, RLVR, GRPO, OPSD

AI focus

Post-training specialized language models and agents; researching synthetic data, reinforcement learning, distillation, agent environments, reward models, verifiers, and evaluations.

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First seen Oct 31, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)