Staff Research Engineer

Leading the research agenda for recursive self-improvement, the full-time Staff Research Engineer will define the roadmap, design experiments, and implement improvements in an applied research role focused on enhancing an autonomous research engine, working remotely. Key Responsibilities Own the RSI agenda by defining the research roadmap and deciding what improvements to implement Advance agent strategy through the design and testing of exploration policies and compute allocation Learn from past research sessions to create training and evaluation signals for better performance Required Qualifications 7+ years of experience in applied ML research or research engineering, particularly in areas like LLM agents or AutoML Proven ability to transition research ideas from prototype to measurable improvements in production systems Strong hands-on engineering skills, particularly in writing production-quality Python code Experience with experimental rigor, including baselines and confidence intervals Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring or leading small research teams