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Title: Staff Research Scientist
Location: San Jose, CA (Hybrid)
Salary: $350k base + bonus
A profitable startup is hiring a Staff Research Scientist for a full-time role. You will be hands-on as well as responsible for leading a team of 5 engineers on the reinforcement learning team. This role provides the opportunity to work with leading research labs and enterprise AI teams.
The ideal candidate brings extensive experience in building reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) environments, executing post-training workflows, benchmarking models, authoring tasks, and designing rubrics, complemented by recent publications.
This hybrid role is based in San Jose, CA, and includes a comprehensive benefits package.
Experience:
- PhD in Computer Science or related field
- 3+ years of experience post-PhD
- Experience leading a team of 3+ engineers
- Recent papers published at conferences such as ICML or NeurIPS
- LLM fine-tuning and RL post-training
- RLHF, DPO, PPO, and/or GRPO
- Task authoring, benchmarking, and rubric design
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Bonus
- $401k matching
- Medical coverage
Oscar Associates Limited (US) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
