RESEARCH ENGINEER (GENERAL)

ABOUT THE COMPANY

We're building autonomous research agents for recursive self-improvement (multi-agent systems that propose, run, and analyze machine learning experiments). We're a small team based in San Francisco, on-site

ABOUT THE ROLE

You'll build and maintain the research systems and pipelines that our research runs on top of: data pipelines, training infrastructure, evaluation tooling, deployment, observability. The work bridges research and production, and you'll be the person who makes "we ran an experiment" actually mean "we ran it correctly, at scale, with results we trust."

You'll own systems end-to-end. You'll work with researchers daily and translate research code into infrastructure that the team can rely on. You'll move fast and you'll be measured on whether your systems make the team faster.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Build and maintain the training, evaluation, and deployment pipelines that our research runs on

Take research code from prototype to production: refactor, harden, instrument, test

Design observability into our research systems (metrics, logs, traces, eval dashboards) so failures surface fast

Own data pipelines for training and evaluation: ingest, dedup, version, validate

Work closely with researchers to understand what they need, what's slow, and what's brittle

Set engineering standards across our research stack (testing, reviews, runbooks) so the team scales

Contribute to architectural decisions that shape how research and production interact

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Senior research engineer with 6+ years building production-grade research systems

Track record across the full lifecycle: data, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring

Strong distributed systems experience; you've shipped systems that have to be on

Fluent Python, fluent with at least one of (PyTorch, JAX); comfortable at the systems-level when needed

Comfortable with experimentation infrastructure (Ray, Slurm, Kubernetes, or similar)

Bias toward shipping; you prefer working code over working diagrams

Strong written communication

NICE TO HAVE

Experience building experimentation platforms or research infrastructure at a frontier research lab

Background in distributed training systems

Open-source contributions to research infrastructure

History of working effectively with small senior teams

THIS ROLE IS PROBABLY NOT FOR YOU IF

You want to do research with engineering as a side activity: this is engineering as the main thing

Cross-functional work with researchers (translation, scoping, education) doesn't appeal

Long-running ownership of running systems isn't appealing: this role has it