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Staff ML Engineer, Agent Training & Environments

💼 Full-time🗓 2026-10-01

Core

Building RL environments, verifiers, fine-tuning pipelines, and evaluation systems to train and judge frontier AI agents.

Role type

Staff ML Engineer (Agent Training & Environments)

Builds

RL environments, verifiers, fine-tuning pipelines, eval systems, and training/serving infrastructure for frontier labs.

Domain

AI Agents, Reinforcement Learning, ML Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, system and API design, production code with coding agents, tooling/CI/harnesses, SFT, RL methods (GRPO/PPO/DPO), reward design, compute-economics, debugging training runs

Preferred skills

agent harnesses, coding agents, multi-tenancy/sandboxing, distributed systems, ML infrastructure, data systems, frontier lab experience

Technologies

Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React.js, GraphQL, GCP, Kubernetes, MySQL, Spanner, PostgreSQL, Kafka, PubSub

Responsibilities

Design and run RL environments for agentic tasks; build verifiers and graders; develop fine-tuning pipelines; manage eval systems for agent trajectories; scale training and serving infrastructure

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with technical direction

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