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Research Engineer, RL Engineering

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

New York, NY · 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

Build the training systems and algorithms that power Claude and other frontier AI models, focusing on reinforcement learning infrastructure that researchers depend on daily. This role suits experienced systems engineers who thrive on supporting research teams and want hands-on exposure to state-of-the-art machine learning at scale.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 4+ years of software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Nice to have

  • High-performance distributed systems experience
  • Large-scale LLM training experience
  • Experience implementing LLM finetuning algorithms like RLHF
  • Pair programming experience
  • Interest in learning machine learning research

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