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Research Engineer, Universes

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

New York, NY · Remote · full time

$500,000 – $850,000

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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.

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What they ask for

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

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