# Research Scientist 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: 2025-10-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Applied%20Compute/3a351ec5-8f16-4add-b0e5-c0012bc5d6a8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-compute-research-scientist/

## About the role

As a research scientist, you will design, implement, and optimize the large-scale training infrastructure that powers our frontier reinforcement learning stack. This is systems work at the edge of what's possible, training state-of-the-art models for our enterprise partners. Frontier systems are exciting but brittle, and require both performance and correctness to train models effectively. You'll work closely with researchers to make our RL stack reliable, fast, and capable of running for days without intervention.

## What they're looking for

- Experience programming with and managing training jobs on large-scale GPU systems
- Fearlessness and curiosity to understand all levels of the training stack
- Bias toward fast implementation, paired with a high bar for reliability and efficiency
- Familiarity with open-weights models (architecture and inference)
- Background in reinforcement learning or integration of inference with RL training loops

Tags: Research Systems