Research Scientist (San Mateo)Understanding Recruitment • San Mateo, CA, United States
Research Scientist (San Mateo)
Understanding Recruitment • San Mateo, CA, United States
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[job_card.job_description]Strong research background in LLMs, reasoning, or agents Experience with SFT, RLHF / DPO, verifier-guided RL, or related training techniques Ability to design and evaluate long-horizon behaviors Comfort working in a fast, interdisciplinary R&D environment Build models that control real physical-world systems, NOT just simulations Massive scope for autonomy, creativity, and impact Competitive compensation + meaningful ownership
Research Scientist
Location : SF Bay Area (On-site)
Were representing a cutting-edge AI organization building autonomous systems that can reason, plan, and interact with the physical world. This is a chance to join a small, elite research team pushing the frontier of LLM-driven autonomy.
The Opportunity
Youll lead research that powers intelligent agents capable of long-horizon reasoning, structured tool-use, and real-world decision-making. This is deep ML research with immediate, tangible impact.
What Youll Work On
- Building LLM reasoning and planning frameworks
- Designing structured tool-use, memory, reflection, and multi-step workflows
- Developing safe, robust policies for autonomous systems
- Training and evaluating models across real engineering and scientific tasks
- Collaborating with systems, simulation, and infrastructure experts
What Were Looking For
Why Join
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