# Research Systems 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: $190K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Applied%20Compute/16eb6620-ccd1-42fa-9890-34ba7cefbd86
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-compute-research-systems-engineer/

## About the role

As a research systems engineer, you'll train frontier-scale models and develop the methods that make continual learning work inside enterprise environments. You'll design and run experiments at scale, explore cutting-edge RL techniques, and build the tools that let us understand what's actually happening during training. This role sits at the intersection of research and systems. You'll invent new algorithms alongside researchers, then work with infrastructure engineers to run them on GPUs.

## What they're looking for

- Experience training or serving large language models
- Experience building RL environments and evaluations for language models
- Proficiency in PyTorch, JAX, or similar ML frameworks, with experience in distributed training
- Strong experimental design skills — you know how to set up experiments that actually answer questions

Tags: Research Systems