Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure
$126k - $423kFull-time
Applied Intuition
About Applied Intuition Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co. We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. About The Role And Team We are looking for a passionate Research Engineer (AI/RL Infrastructure) to join the Research Group at Applied Intuition. This role is ideal for engineers who design, build, and operate state-of-the-art, large-scale ML systems and enjoy working closely with researchers to develop and accelerate the core platform powering next-generation physical AI systems. The mission of the Research Group is to create cutting-edge technology enabling next-generation physical AI, with emphasis on the two most challenging applications reshaping our everyday life: end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist. We have a group composed of leading experts from top institutions and companies, recognized for their exceptional academic and industry contributions—including eight Best Paper awards at premier conferences and journals such as CVPR and ICRA. Learn more at appliedintuition.com/research. Supported by industry-leading tools and infra, researchers can access millions of miles of data from large fleets, and deploy methods they develop into various autonomous and robotic systems including self-driving cars/trucks, autonomous mining/construction machines, humanoid robots and dexterous hands. In addition to your research contributions, you will contribute to and learn from best practices in the autonomy and robotics industries within our fast-paced and customer-focused culture. Improvements deployed to our system immediately help our customers with their programs and deliver value to our business. We are open to all years of experience as long as the necessary requirements are met, including those with potential Tech Lead and Manager capacity; Senior/Staff level experience is strongly preferred for this role. At Applied Intuition, You Will
- Design and build training and evaluation infrastructure to support our current AI research directions, orchestrating massive GPU clusters to process PBs of multimodal sensor data
- Build robust benchmarking, continuous evaluation, and regression tracking systems to measure model performance across diverse, long-tail real-world driving distributions
- Develop large-scale data sampling, dataset generation, and advanced data curation pipelines, leveraging state-of-the-art AI models to power a closed-loop data flywheel
- Enable high-throughput distributed training across heterogeneous cloud environments, focusing on reliability, efficiency, and cost-aware scaling
- Collaborate closely with AI research, autonomy, and platform teams to translate cutting-edge research into production-ready systems
- Experience building and operating production-grade software systems across the full machine learning lifecycle, including training, evaluation, data, and deployment
- Opinions about building a company-wide platform for ML training, evaluation, and deployment
- Experience with performance engineering and compute acceleration for large-scale ML training, including profiling, bottleneck analysis, and optimization
- Strong systems-level debugging skills to diagnose and resolve issues in large-scale distributed training, spanning model code, data pipelines, runtimes, and cluster infrastructure
- Deep familiarity with the open-source ML and systems ecosystem, with judgment on when to adopt open source versus build in-house
- Technical experience in: Pytorch, CUDA, Ray, Flyte, K8s
- Industry experience on relevant topics (self-driving application preferred)
Vacancy posted 9 days ago
Similar jobs that could be interesting for youBased on the Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure in California vacancy
- ...interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be... ...growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business... ...systems. About the role The RL Velocity team owns the efficiency... ...our RL Science stack - the infrastructure, tooling, and systems that...SuggestedFull timeVisa sponsorship
Anthropic
San Francisco, CA4 days ago - ...generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and... ...career. THE ROLE:We are hiring a AI Research Scientist - Infrastructure Engineer, Reinforcement Learning, to own... ...APIs across large GPU fleets. You make RL scientists productive by improving throughput...Suggested
$224k - $356.5k
...searching for a senior or principal engineer who specializes in building cutting-edge infrastructure for large-scale foundation model... ...the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group. Our team is... ...-scale robot learning, embodied AI, and physics simulation. Our past...SuggestedFull time$110.7k - $379.2k
Position Summary Research Engineer — Post-Training & Small Language Models (SLMs), Healthcare AI Three hundred fifty million Americans... ...in GPU compute and training infrastructure, not toy fine-tunes. As a... ...using verifiable-reward RL — designing reward signals and...SuggestedLocal areaVisa sponsorship$174k - $252k
Drive post-training research and engineering using reinforcement learning (RL) and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to advance... ...capabilities.Implement training infrastructure, reward models, and data curation... ...DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary...Suggested$192k - $304.75k
...! We are seeking a world-class engineer to drive applied research at the intersection of AI and ASIC design. Large language... ...Hands-on experience with LLMs, RL, RLHF/RLAIF, post-training, evaluation... ...building and maintaining infrastructure (Docker, Slurm, CI/CD, etc.)....Full time$174k - $252k
Translate research into production-ready systems, driving... ...learning (RL/RLHF /RLAIF) to enhance... ...product managers, and infrastructure teams to identify emerging... ...opportunities and bring novel AI features to millions of... ...prototypes. As a Software Engineer, you will be working...$150k - $200k
Santa Clara, CAUS Research and Development - Controls /... ...HybridPlusAI is a Physical AI company pioneering AI-... ...teams.As a Research Engineer, you will deliver mission... ...based approaches (DL/RL/IL)Work cross-functionally... ...tools and infrastructure for dataset generation,...Full time$15k
.... We apply state-of-the-art AI/ML techniques to construct our... ...markets.As a Senior Research Engineer embedded within our first quant... ...will own the team’s research infrastructure and overnight pipelines. You... ...implementing deep learning and RL frameworks in Pytorch or...Local areaNight shift$180k - $250k
...Research Engineer SuperAnnotate helps the world's leading AI teams build responsible, next-generation models powered by high... ...Own projects (for example, an RL/agentic environment build for a... ...eval harnesses, environments, infrastructure – without relying on a platform...Full timeSuperAnnotate AI
San Francisco, CA4 days ago- ...Tessera Labs Research Engineer Tessera Labs is a new category of enterprise software: an AI platform that changes how the world's largest... ...this an unusually good RL setting: much of our task space... ...call trajectories, curriculum infrastructure — that teach models to...
Tessera Labs
San Jose, CA3 days ago $126k - $423k
...powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now... ...company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence... ...for multiple passionate Research Engineers to join the Research Group at... ...at scale and use it for RL training Process human data...Full timeFor contractorsFor subcontractorCasual workWork at officeImmediate startRemote workDay shiftApplied Intuition
California13 days ago- ...the demands of advanced AI. AI for Chips connects... ...work of semiconductor engineering.Our goal is to help... ...cycles. This work brings research, model training, and... ...role, you will:Build RL environments and evaluations... ...tools, and experiment infrastructure.Improve iteration...
OpenAI
San Francisco, CA3 days ago - ...Oath Technologies is a new research organization building tools for oversight of advanced AIs. As AIs become more powerful,... ...Role Summary Oath's research engineers will build novel formal methods... ...adjacent formal-verification infrastructure, with AI agents doing much of...Flexible hours
$250k - $350k
...is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s... ...use cases. We build the infrastructure and tooling that power... ...paired with applied ML research, design, and evaluation... ...Machine Learning Research Engineer, you will operate... ...traces, online or offline RL — and validate them with...Full time$231.5k - $405.1k
...DescriptionIt all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code... ..., ServiceNow is the AI control tower for... ...DescriptionAbout the team Our Core AI Research team develops novel... ...product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and domain... ...fine-tuning (SFT), RL, DPO/GRPO, reward...Work at officeImmediate startRemote workFlexible hoursShift work$174k - $252k
...grade architecture and scaled serving infrastructure.Partner directly with engineering and product teams to integrate and... ....Experience collaborating across research and product boundaries to co-... ...Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional...$120k - $243k
HPE Labs - Research EngineerThis role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with... ...and systems for next generation AI, HPC, Enterprise and Telecommunication Infrastructure. Our diverse team with a broad range... ...or Electrical & Computer Engineering. Excellent networked systems building...Full timeWork experience placementWork at officeLocal areaImmediate start$184k - $287.5k
We are recruiting top research engineers in the Autonomous Vehicles Research team at NVIDIA with... ...foundation to analyze new AI algorithms. We focus on AI models for... ...sensor data;Build and optimize simulation infrastructure (based on GPU-accelerated simulators)...Full time$197.3k - $313.7k
...SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents... ...software and platform engineers to embed in our AI team to bridge... ...directly enable world-class research and products used by millions... ...building substantive, scalable infrastructure is what enables scientific breakthroughs...Full time$174k - $252k
Be a part of team of scientists, engineers, machine learning experts, and more... ...years of experience in deep learning research and development, including generative AI, audio and video synthesis,... ...Experience with reinforcement learning (RL) and post-training with LLMs,...- ...impact, leading the transition to Physical AI. To usher in this new intelligent world... ...this mission, we are looking for a Research Engineer to tackle the industry's toughest challenges... ...share data between machines and cloud infrastructure, and enable fast, reliable system...Contract workWork from homeHome officeFlexible hours
$180k - $258.75k
.../Full-time /HybridAt Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission... ...the state of the art in AI, robotics, driving, and material... ...is looking for a Research Engineer to help develop and deploy our... ...models; maintaining the infrastructure that ingests, unifies, and serves...Full timeLocal areaShift work$150k - $250k
About Distyl AI Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering... ...social organizations.We research and deploy technologies that... ...ForAt Distyl, Research Engineers build the bridge between frontier... ...production constraintsBuild infrastructure for experimentation, model comparison...Work at office3 days per week$174k - $252k
...Contribute to reporting, analytical infrastructure, model testing framework... ...:Experience in software engineering and working on large-scale ML... ...conducting applied research to improve the quality and training... ...DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional...$136.44k - $265.11k
...rebuilding biotech for the AI era.When a breakthrough is delayed... ...intersection of software engineering, biology, and frontier AI:... ...improvement.Build scalable data infrastructure, creating pipelines that... ...engineers, scientists, and external research partners.Desire to work in a...Work at officeLocal areaMonday to FridayShift work- ...Archive Human Archive is a research lab backed by Y Combinator... ...creativity. We are building the infrastructure to accelerate that transition... ...As a Research Engineer, you'll work on multimodal sensing... ...fusion research for embodied AI and robotics. This role sits...Shift work
Human Archive
San Francisco, CA1 day ago - ...Console is building the AI agents that power autonomous enterprises. We use AI to... ...About the role We're hiring a Research Engineer to push Console's core agent loop from... ...stack when needed, from traces and eval infrastructure to agent orchestration, product workflows...Work at office
Console Systems, Inc
San Francisco, CA4 days ago - ...ML Training Infrastructure Engineer Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model with top-in-industry generalization and real... ...GPU fleet into a training engine our researchers love. Your charter is singular and broad...
DYNA Robotics Inc
Redwood City, CA3 days ago - ...Research Engineer We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization - yet vulnerabilities... .... We are training and scaling security AI agents to discover zero-days... ...team includes deep expertise in data, infrastructure, security and LLMs with technical leaders...Full timeWork at office
DepthFirst
San Francisco, CA5 days ago
Do you want to receive more vacancies?
Subscribe and receive similar vacancies to Research Engineer - AI/RL Infrastructure. Be the first to apply!
Related searches
- infrastructure developer California
- remote infrastructure engineer California
- infrastructure engineer California
- senior infrastructure engineer California
- research phd California
- scientific research California
- education policy research California
- research professional California
- remote legal research California
- student research intern California