Patronus AI
Member of Technical Staff - Research
$175K–$300K
San Francisco · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- No years specified; independent research experience is required.
- Education
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Conduct foundational research and build simulation and reinforcement-learning systems to train, evaluate, and improve frontier AI agents.
What you'll do
- Lead research projects end-to-end, from problem formulation and experiments to production impact.
- Design agent simulation and reinforcement-learning environments, and train models using post-training algorithms such as GRPO and SFT.
- Analyze agent behavior and publish research, benchmarks, datasets, and reproducible systems.
What they ask for
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
- Independent research experience in reinforcement learning, NLP, agentic systems, evaluation, alignment, or related areas.
- Strong experimental skills and experience with clean, reproducible research code in Python and modern machine learning frameworks.
- Ability to execute independently and collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams.
Pay
$175,000 - $300,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, GRPO, SFT
AI focus
Research and develop agent simulations, reinforcement-learning methods, scalable oversight, and systems for training, evaluating, and improving agentic AI.
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