Polymath Ventures

Polymath Ventures

Member of Technical Staff - Research

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 99 days ago
Agentic AIResearch

About the role

  • We're hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Research to help advance the frontier of autonomous agents.
  • We're looking for people who are excited by hard open-ended problems and want to operate at the intersection of research and engineering.
  • Examples of projects you could work on include:

Responsibilities

  • We design and scale simulation environments where agents learn to operate safely and autonomously.
  • You'll work on core research problems in long-horizon evaluation, agent post-training, and environment design, with a focus on understanding where current models fail and how to improve them.

Requirements

  • Have experience shipping reliable, production-quality code
  • Have a track record of publications

Skills

  • Have strong engineering & research fundamentals and are a prolific user of AI tools

Benefits

  • 🪷 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 🚞 Commuter benefits
  • 🌎 Unlimited PTO
  • Polymath is an applied research lab focused on advancing long-horizon agent capabilities through reinforcement learning.

Company info

  • Polymath is a team of researchers, engineers, and operators focused on advancing the frontier of safe, superintelligent AI agents.
  • We have a flat organizational structure. We believe that people do their best work when they're self-motivated and driven by a desire to learn, contribute to the team's goals, and advance scientific progress.
  • We're looking for folks who ship fast, set high standards for themselves, and are great team players.

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