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Platform Research Engineer

Applied Compute· Platform
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San Francisco$200k - $335kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Platform research engineer focused on making Applied Compute's platform intelligent through continual learning, synthetic environments, data/evaluations, and RL stack integration; acts as conduit between AI product engineers and applied research engineers to accelerate deliveries.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve our hinting primitives for online self-distillation: the algorithms and systems that allow agents to learn continuously from production traces and company data
  • Develop and maintain trace search, trace mining, and data labeling systems that feed the continual learning loop
  • Research and implement approaches to multi-agent system design, including structuring agent coordination and managing trade-offs
  • Build best in class coding agents for automatically creating agents for delivery and hill-climbing harnesses
  • Translate learnings from applied research and customer deployments into generalizable platform features
  • Collaborate closely with AI product engineers to ensure new ML capabilities are integrated into polished platform experiences

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals combined with deep ML/AI knowledge
  • Production research experience: both deliveries train models into production & top-tier conference publications, blogs, or reports
  • Strong experimental design skills: you are diligent, don't cut corners, and actually run experiments
  • Highly organized: you manage complexity across multiple workstreams
  • Ability to read and translate research papers and prototypes into shippable engineering

Skills

Required:Strong software engineering fundamentalsProduction research experienceExperimental designAbility to translate research into engineering
Nice to have:Reinforcement learning

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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