Drimva

Tessera Labs

Research Scientist

$200K–$300K

San Jose Office (HQ) · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026

Education
MS or PhD in CS, ML, statistics, math, physics, or a related field, or research experience of comparable depth without the credential.

About the job

Sets and pursues research on reliable long-horizon agents for enterprise transformation, developing and evaluating post-training methods and translating findings into shipped products and research publications.

What you'll do

  • Invent and validate post-training and RL methods, including reward design, long-horizon planning, tool use, curricula, and data strategy.
  • Develop agent memory, evaluation, verification, and enterprise knowledge-representation methods; study multi-agent failure modes.
  • Run experiments, turn findings into product capabilities, publish research, and mentor or review others’ work.

What they ask for

  • MS or PhD in CS, ML, statistics, math, physics, or a related field, or research experience of comparable depth without the credential.
  • Track record of original ML research, such as publications at NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/ACL-tier venues, influential open-source work, or results that moved a frontier system.
  • Deep expertise in at least one of post-training and RL for LLMs, agent memory and long-context reasoning, knowledge representation and structured reasoning, or evaluation methodology.
  • Hands-on ability to write code, run experiments, and read logs.

Nice to have

  • End-to-end ownership of a research direction at a frontier lab or strong academic group.
  • Published work or experience in agents, tool use, RL for LLMs, code generation or repair, reasoning, evaluation, verifiable-reward RL, or knowledge representation.

Pay

$200K – $300K USD base salary

Tools

LLMs, RL

AI focus

Research and develop reliable long-horizon enterprise agents, with emphasis on post-training and RL, memory, evaluation, verification, multi-agent systems, and structured enterprise representations.

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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)