Research Engineer, RL Environments and Infrastructure

Hyphen Connect
  • San Francisco, CA
    30+ days ago

    Job Description

    We are looking for a hybrid Systems Engineer and AI Researcher to lead the development of our agent evaluation framework and post-training data pipelines. You will design sandboxed execution environments, high-throughput reinforcement learning feedback loops, and robust evaluation setups that handle non-deterministic agent outputs.

    Core Responsibilities

    • Build Stateful Agent Environments: Design deterministically verifiable, stateful sandboxes (web, OS, API, database) where agents can execute 50+ step action trajectories safely.
    • Scale Post-Training & RL Pipelines: Implement high-throughput post-training infrastructure (RLHF, Direct Preference Optimization, Process-Supervised Reward Models) for dynamic policy optimization.
    • Design Enterprise Benchmarks: Formulate evaluation metrics and automated grading harnesses that catch agent drift, hallucination, and loops in realistic enterprise environments.
    • Systems Optimization: Keep latency low and compute efficiency high across distributed GPUs and sandboxed runtime environments.

    Requirements

    • Production AI Experience: Track record of deploying evaluations, RL loops, or sandboxed agent environments into production.
    • Systems Polyglot: Deep systems background (Python, Rust, C++, Go, TypeScript, CUDA)—you pick up new tools and frameworks within days.
    • San Francisco On-Site: In-person collaboration at our SF office to iterate quickly with founders and domain experts.
    • Pragmatic Problem Solver: Comfortable navigating raw paper implementations, undocumented SDKs, and custom distributed training setups.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSan Francisco, CA

    Skills

    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Benchmarkingunmatched
    • C++ Programming Languageunmatched
    • CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture)unmatched
    • Data Managementunmatched
    • GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)unmatched
    • Go Programming Language (Golang)unmatched
    • High Throughputunmatched
    • Metricsunmatched
    • Operating Systemsunmatched
    • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
    • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
    • Reinforcement Learningunmatched
    • Research Skillsunmatched
    • Rust Programming Languageunmatched
    • Systems Engineeringunmatched

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