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About the role
As a platform research engineer, you'll do research around ways to make Applied Compute's platform intelligent. This includes how we set up continual learning against production traces (OPSD, SDPO, RMSD), scaling synthetic environments, data & evaluations, and integrating the RL stack that powers agent improvement over time.
What they're looking for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals combined with deep ML/AI knowledge
- Production research experience: both deliveries train models into production & top-tier conference publications, blogs, or reports
- Strong experimental design skills: you are diligent, don't cut corners, and actually run experiments
- Highly organized: you manage complexity across multiple workstreams
- Ability to read and translate research papers and prototypes into shippable engineering
More about this role
As a platform research engineer, you'll do research around ways to make Applied Compute's platform intelligent. This includes how we set up continual learning against production traces (OPSD, SDPO, RMSD), scaling synthetic environments, data & evaluations, and integrating the RL stack that powers agent improvement over time. Your research will serve as the connective tissue between our AI product engineers (who build the interfaces and tools customers use) and our applied research engineers (who work directly with customers to ship agents into production). Your job is to take learnings from across customer deployments, identify the greatest common denominators, and pursue research to accelerate all of our deliveries.
What you'll do
Build and improve our hinting primitives for online self-distillation: the algorithms and systems that allow agents to learn continuously from production traces and company data
Develop and maintain trace search, trace mining, and data labeling systems that feed the continual learning loop
Research and implement approaches to multi-agent system design, including structuring agent coordination and managing trade-offs
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