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Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineering

Johannesburg, Gauteng🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-09-27

Core

Design and scale Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments, training pipelines, and evaluation systems to advance AI model capabilities.

Role type

Senior IC Research Engineer (Reinforcement Learning)

Builds

Scalable RL training pipelines, automated data generation systems, and benchmarking frameworks.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning, environment design, training pipeline architecture, synthetic data generation, automated evaluation systems, open-source model fine-tuning, benchmarking frameworks

Preferred skills

Research publication experience, familiarity with evaluation ecosystems, scalable infrastructure for large-scale experimentation

Technologies

Reinforcement Learning frameworks, synthetic data tools, model validation libraries

Responsibilities

Architect self-contained RL environments with complex reward functions and verifiers; Design and scale episode pipelines and multi-component training processes; Build automated data generation systems leveraging synthetic data; Develop AI-driven evaluation and quality assurance systems; Fine-tune and optimize open-source RL models; Establish benchmarking frameworks to measure model capability and robustness.

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