# Platform Research Engineer at Applied Compute

- Company: Applied Compute
- What the company does: Specific Intelligence for Your Business. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.appliedcompute.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $335K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Applied%20Compute/13138e7c-f2b3-402f-bb41-d6078e76b23c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-compute-platform-research-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Platform