Normal Computing
AI Research Resident
$150K
New York +3 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- New York
London
Mountain View
Copenhagen - Education
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a graduate degree (MS or PhD, or equivalent research experience) in computer science, AI, machine learning, or a related field.
About the job
Conduct applied research on agentic AI for code generation and tool use, developing prototypes, evaluations, and research findings for potential production use.
What you'll do
- Develop multi-agent and reinforcement learning strategies and integrate research prototypes with the code generation platform.
- Build evaluation suites, dashboards, and datasets; conduct and document an original research investigation.
- Co-author a research paper and present findings at the residency colloquium.
What they ask for
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a graduate degree (MS or PhD, or equivalent research experience) in computer science, AI, machine learning, or a related field.
- Strong Python skills and proficiency with modern ML frameworks.
- Familiarity with agentic LLM concepts, including multi-agent systems, tool use, or reinforcement learning variants.
- Experience turning research ideas into working, reasonably reproducible code.
Nice to have
- PyTorch; publications or prior research writing and presentations.
- Experience in program synthesis, code generation, constrained decoding, or offline RL; open-source contributions to CleanRL, LangGraph, or Transformers; or semiconductor-domain exposure.
Pay
$150K (currency not stated; compensation type not stated)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, CleanRL, LangGraph, Transformers
AI focus
Research and develop agentic LLMs, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning strategies, code generation, and tool use; build evaluations and research prototypes.
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