Member of Technical Staff, Research
About The Position
At Primitive Labs, the mission is to make human behavior a first-class primitive of software development. In this role, you will build the research systems behind behavioral intelligence agents, working across simulation architectures, memory systems, computational cognitive science, continual learning, and agent architectures. The goal is to improve how agents model human behavior, make decisions, and act across real product experiences. You will also help define the research program through papers, technical writing, open-source work, and conference talks. Primitive Labs describes its team as builders who contribute to both code and research, with a few people trusted with meaningful ownership and little organizational hierarchy. The company works quickly, encourages open debate, and values passion and intellectual curiosity.
Requirements
- Have led research in agents, machine learning, simulation, or cognitive science.
- Be able to design rigorous experiments.
- Be able to build the systems needed to test research ideas.
- Work deeply with large models and agents.
- Be able to turn research into production systems.
- Care about human behavior, not just task completion.
Responsibilities
- Own research directions from question to production.
- Design experiments for agent behavior.
- Build simulations of real user decision-making.
- Develop behavioral-fidelity benchmarks.
- Train and evaluate agents against human data.
- Translate research findings into model, memory, and runtime improvements.
- Publish papers, technical write-ups, and open-source work.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Vacation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
