Applied Research Engineer
San Francisco$200k - $320kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Applied Research Engineer role focused on owning customer engagements end-to-end, training and deploying agents, and contributing to platform improvements including custom models for large customers and general agent enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Train and post-train models for enterprises, from environment design through deployment
- Own engagements end-to-end, working directly with technical and business stakeholders
- Navigate new customer architectures, data systems, and requirements quickly
- Surface learnings from customers and contribute them back to our platform
- Collaborate across research, product, and infrastructure to define architectures, evaluation frameworks, and best practices
Qualifications
- Meaningful AI research experience, either in industry or academic work
- Comfort diving into unfamiliar codebases and training models on real-world, messy data
- Strong problem-solving skills, especially in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Ability to work directly with customers: listening, empathizing, and understanding how their organizations operate
- Desire to own problems end-to-end and deliver outcomes
Skills
Required:AI researchCustomer engagement / communicationEnd-to-end ownership
Nice to have:Model training and fine-tuningRL environments / evaluation frameworks / agent systems
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 100% employer-paid health insurance coverage for you and your family
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Daily lunches and dinners
- Transportation and relocation support
- 5% 401k match
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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