Research Scientist (Gen AI)

GW276
  • $200,000-$250,000
  • San Francisco, CA
  • Permanent

About the job


Research Scientist

Location: SF Bay Area (On-site)


We’re 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

You’ll 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 You’ll 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 We’re Looking For

  • 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


Why Join

  • Build models that control real physical-world systems, NOT just simulations
  • Massive scope for autonomy, creativity, and impact
  • Competitive compensation + meaningful ownership


Anna Heneghan Senior ML Research & Engineering Recruiter

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