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Research Engineer (Reinforcement Learning)

LiveKit · North America · Remote

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About LiveKit

Backed by Index and Redpoint.

About the role

We are looking for an exceptional engineer to build post-training at LiveKit. Our agents run over voice and increasingly over text channels like SMS and chat, and the interesting problems show up over long horizons: staying useful across many sessions, working with context that accumulates over time, and using tools reliably in the middle of a live conversation. Build the environments and verifiers our models train against

What they're looking for

  • A strong Python engineer
  • Have carried a model from raw data through to production
  • Treat data as the product: coverage, diversity, leakage
  • Assume a model will exploit a weak reward, and design against it
  • Comfortable with GPUs and honest about their limits
  • Know when to train, and when not to
More about this role

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe agents in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice AI applications for OpenAI, xAI, Salesforce, Coursera, Spotify, and thousands of others, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year.

We are looking for an exceptional engineer to build post-training at LiveKit. Our agents run over voice and increasingly over text channels like SMS and chat, and the interesting problems show up over long horizons: staying useful across many sessions, working with context that accumulates over time, and using tools reliably in the middle of a live conversation.

Build the environments and verifiers our models train against

Own the synthetic data pipeline, from generation through the quality gates

Run training experiments end to end, and explain what moved the model

Build the evaluations a release has to clear

Choose and adapt open-weight base models for our tasks

Make trained behavior hold up for voice and text agents alike

Ship models into production and keep improving them on real usage

A strong Python...

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