# Research Engineer, Universes

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/24352381-c1ea-441a-97f0-b8091295ca45

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

- Employment type: full time
- Location: New York, NY
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 500000 – 850000 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves building training environments and evaluations for AI agents that can handle complex, long-horizon tasks in realistic settings. You'll blend research and engineering work, contributing to both novel approaches and research direction in reinforcement learning and safe AI development.

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

## Skills named

Machine Learning, Monte Carlo Simulation, Python, Reinforcement Learning, Software Engineering

## Required

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and professional experience
- Strong software engineering skills
- Ability to design and build training environments for agentic AI
- Experience with reinforcement learning
- Demonstrated good judgment in identifying impactful research directions

## Nice to have

- Industry experience with large language model training, fine-tuning, or evaluation
- Industry experience building RL environments or simulation systems
- Large-scale ML infrastructure experience
- Deep expertise in sandboxing, containerization, VMs, or distributed systems
- Published influential work in ML areas

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5061517008