# Research Engineer, Performance RL (Reinforcement Learning)

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/1cff721e-9f1d-4f19-9387-d336d8cffd0b

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 350000 – 850000 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves designing reinforcement learning environments and conducting research to improve AI models' code generation capabilities, particularly for accelerator programming. You'll need deep expertise in GPU/accelerator optimization and ML frameworks, combined with the ability to move research from experimentation into production training pipelines.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

CUDA, JAX, PyTorch, Reinforcement Learning

## Required

- Expertise with accelerators and ML framework programming
- Experience working across the full stack from kernels to distributed systems
- Ability to balance research exploration with engineering implementation

## Nice to have

- Reinforcement learning experience
- Experience porting ML workloads across different accelerator types
- Familiarity with LLM training methodologies

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5160330008