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Founding Staff Scientist - Autonomous Agents R&D

Polymath Labs

Polymath Labs is hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Research to push the frontier of autonomous agents. You will work on long-horizon evaluation, agent post-training, and environment design, wearing multiple hats from building benchmarks to running rigorous experiments. Join the founding team to solve hard open-ended problems at the intersection of research and engineering, publishing results and shaping the direction of our core research agenda. #J-18808-Ljbffr Polymath Labs

Vacancy posted 1 day ago
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