NeoCognition - Member of Technical Staff – Research
deCircle•Palo Alto, CA
•$280,000 - $350,000•Onsite
About The Position
As a Member of Technical Staff [Research] at NeoCognition, you'll be part of the core team advancing the frontier of LLM agents: systems that can reason, plan, and act reliably in the real world. You'll lead end-to-end research projects, from conceptualization and experimentation to building and testing product prototypes, working closely with engineers and designers.
Requirements
- 2+ years of LLM research (agents, post-training, or evaluations) with publications
- Hands-on with post-training (instruction tuning, RL, RLHF) and open-weight models
- Python; PyTorch, JAX or TensorFlow
Nice To Haves
- Experience with agentic system design
- Experience with multi-agent systems
- Experience with AI coding tools
Responsibilities
- Lead research initiatives in LLM reasoning, post-training, and agentic system design
- Develop new methods to improve capability, reliability, and safety of autonomous LLM agents in real-world environments
- Collaborate with software and platform engineers to prototype and productionize research outcomes into sticky product experiences
- Design and execute experiments, benchmark performance, and analyze model behaviors to identify failure modes and opportunities
- Stay abreast of reasoning, multi-agent systems, RLHF, tool use and LLM fine-tuning; contribute to publications or open source where appropriate
- Help shape the research culture and technical roadmap as an early team member
Benefits
- Competitive equity
- Relocation supported
- Visa sponsorship for strong candidates willing to relocate
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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