Bespokelabs

Bespokelabs

Research Engineer

Mountain View

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 182 days ago
PythonAWSGCPCloud PlatformsMachine LearningPyTorchResearch

About the role

  • We're looking for a Research Engineer to bridge cutting-edge research with production-scale development and deployment of RL environments.
  • You'll work at the intersection of research and engineering-collaborating with frontier labs and enterprise customers to understand their needs, then translating those insights into systematic environment creation.
  • This role requires both research depth and execution excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with frontier AI labs to understand their agent training needs and design custom environments.
  • Prototype novel approaches to environment generation, curriculum design, and data curation.
  • Build and maintain scalable systems for creating, validating, and deploying RL environments
  • Develop systematic approaches to data curation that ensure quality and diversity
  • Create automated quality assurance pipelines for environment verification
  • Design evaluation frameworks that measure environment effectiveness

Requirements

  • Track record of research contributions (publications, open-source projects, or deployed research systems)
  • Strong Python skills and experience with ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or similar)
  • Proficiency with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS) and distributed computing
  • Ability to use modern tools such as Claude Code effectively.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with RL agent training or evaluation systems
  • Background in data-centric AI, synthetic data generation, or dataset creation
  • Publications in top ML/AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.)
  • Previous experience in a research engineering or applied scientist role
  • Contributions to widely-used datasets, benchmarks, or evaluation suites

Compensation

  • Competitive salary and equity

Benefits

  • Health coverage, and the opportunity to work directly with the world's leading AI research labs

Company info

  • Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their specific agent training challenges

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