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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