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Founding Staff Engineer for Autonomous Agents Research

POLYMATH

Polymath is hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Research to push the frontier of autonomous agents. You will work on long-horizon evaluation, post-training, and environment design, wearing multiple hats from building benchmarks to writing production code and running rigorous experiments. As a founding team member, you’ll tackle hard open-ended problems at the intersection of research and engineering, with opportunities to publish and contribute to cutting-edge AI research. #J-18808-Ljbffr POLYMATH

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