Research Engineer or Scientist (Behavioral Intelligence)
RemoteFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Role focused on building research systems behind behavioral intelligence agents, including simulations, memory systems, continual learning, and agent architectures to model human behavior and improve agent decision-making in real product experiences. Involves publishing papers, technical writing, open-source work, and conference talks.
Responsibilities
- Own research directions from question to production.
- Design experiments for agent behavior.
- Build simulations of real user decision-making.
- Develop behavioral-fidelity benchmarks.
- Train and evaluate agents against human data.
- Translate research findings into model, memory, and runtime improvements.
- Publish papers, technical write-ups, and open-source work.
Qualifications
- Led research in agents, ML, simulation, or cognitive science.
- Design rigorous experiments.
- Build the systems needed to test your ideas.
- Work deeply with large models and agents.
- Turn research into production systems.
- Care about human behavior, not just task completion.
Skills
Required:Research direction ownershipExperiment designSimulation developmentBehavioral benchmarksAgent training and evaluationResearch-to-production translationTechnical writing and open-source
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- paid time off and vacation
Last updated Sep 12, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Human-Aligned Development
Our mission is to make human behavior a first-class primitive of software development.
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