Research Scientist — Hierarchical RL & AGI Foundations
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astera, located in California, is seeking unconventional thinkers for a pivotal role in advancing Artificial General Intelligence. Candidates will focus on foundational research rather than incremental improvements, working collaboratively with experts from various fields. The ideal candidate has a PhD or equivalent expertise in relevant quantitative fields, along with a strong coding proficiency in deep learning frameworks. This position offers a unique chance to contribute to groundbreaking AI research without the constraints of market pressures. #J-18808-Ljbffr astera
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$295k
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- Member of Technical Staff - Research Scientist Patronus AI is a frontier lab... ...progress toward human-aligned AGI. We are on a mission to simulate... .... Our customers include foundation model labs and Fortune 500 enterprises... ...methods for efficient RL. Develop state-of-the-art systems...Foundation
- ...through exploration in the real world. We're looking for research scientists with strong foundations in reinforcement learning, multimodal representation... ...of: Self-supervised, goal-conditioned, or unsupervised RL Large-scale pretraining (language, multimodal, image, or...Foundation
$150k - $300k
...developing simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate... ...toward human-aligned AGI. We are on a mission to... ...Our customers include foundation model labs and Fortune... ...As a Research Scientist at Patronus AI, you will... ...methods for efficient RL. Develop state-of-the‑art...FoundationWork at office- Ellenco Estágios e Treinamentos in Berkeley, CA seeks a Research Scientist in Embodied AI to architect robotic foundation models and lead the design of large‑scale learning frameworks for industrial manipulation and autonomous planning. You will build end‑to‑end training...Foundation
- ...the role We’re looking for a top‑tier Research Scientist to join our tech team. Your core responsibilities... ...progress of our search engine Design a RL framework to integrate AI preferences... ...into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich...FoundationRemote workFlexible hours
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$213k - $263k
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The Bioinformaticist Research Scientist in the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) will join the BioMolecular Materials Group to provide bioinformatics... ...careers.lbl.gov Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: The foundation of Berkeley Lab is our Stewardship Values: Team Science,...FoundationFull timeRelocationRelocation package- ...existing models, we’re training our own foundation models on top of large-scale... ...stealth mode. The Role We’re looking for research scientists who want to work at the intersection of... ...applied to language models, but strong RL backgrounds from other domains (robotics...Foundation
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...its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence... ...of work. Responsibilities Lead AI Research Scientist in Workato’s AI Research Lab. This... ...synthetic data, automated post‑training, RL, evaluation techniques, and model optimization...FoundationWork at officeFlexible hours- ...Since our origins as a Stanford research project in 2015, we’ve kept... ...everything we do, enabling scientists, engineers, product creators,... ...large language models. This is a foundational research role focused on one... ...teams to advance our RL data capabilities, translating...Local areaShift work
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