Research Scientist (Full Time/SFO, CA/Onsite/USA)

Job Title: Research Scientist Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite)Job Type: Full Time/PermanentVisa: Full Time/USC/GC/Etc..The company: a days-old AI agents lab, founders from Tesla AI, Anthropic, DeepMind, NVIDIA Research and Jane Street.RequirementsExceptional ML research and engineering abilityDeep experience in one or more of: LLM post-training, RL, agents, reasoning, long-horizon systems, memory/context, computer use, evals, or human-agent interactionStrong experimental judgment; builds complete systems, not isolated prototypesMoves fluidly between research ideas, large-scale experimentation, and production systemsA record of significant research ownership: an important model, agent system, benchmark, paper, open-source project, or major research betHigh agency and ambition; comfortable with uncertain directions where the right approach isn't knownIntense, high-ownership; thrives at a days-old companyBackground~3–6 years; frontier-lab research/engineering experience valued (open to exceptional outliers; senior leads welcome above)"Spike" backgrounds a plus: olympiad (IOI/IMO), quant, world-class competitive achievementNice-to-HaveWork directly on RL post-training, agents, long-horizon systems, computer-use, memory/context, evals, or human-agent interactionStrong publication / open-source / benchmark record in these areasEnvironments / training-data-pipeline / eval-harness building experienceWho Will Thrive HereA researcher who wants to own long-horizon agent bets end to end, training through deploymentSomeone who builds complete systems (environments, pipelines, evals), not just papersHigh-agency, comfortable in the fog of uncertain researchExcited to shape a research agenda at a days-old companyMission-aligned with long-horizon autonomous agentsProcess ends with a paid 2 to 3 day research work trial in SF, expenses covered.

Fully in office. Visa sponsorship available; a strong publication or open-source record makes the O-1 realistic.