# Applied AI Researcher, Agent Systems & Evaluation at NURO CORP

- Company: NURO CORP
- What the company does: Backed by SOSV.
- Company website: http://nuro.ca
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View, California (HQ)
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://nuro.ai/careersitem?gh_jid=7793005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nuro-corp-applied-ai-researcher-agent-systems-and-evaluation/

## About the role

Most teams building agents make design decisions by intuition and anecdote. Someone tries a new memory scheme, it feels better, it ships. We think that is the central failure of the field right now, and we are building this team to work the other way: every decision about how our agent systems are constructed should be settled by evidence.

## What they're looking for

- Graduate degree in CS, ML, statistics, or a related field, or equivalent research experience. We care about demonstrated research judgment, not credentials
- Fluent in the current literature and able to judge it. You read papers continuously, can tell a real result from a well-marketed one, and have opinions about which recent directions are overrated
- Deep understanding of how LLMs work — pretraining through the post-training stack, and what actually happens at inference. You reason from mechanism, not just from published numbers
- Firm grasp of the full evaluation pipeline : sourcing eval data, constructing the loop, automating the climb. Having done all three for a real system, rather than one in isolation, is the strongest signal for this role
- Rigorous experimentalist. You design experiments that can fail, you understand variance and power, and you are comfortable saying an intervention didn't work
- A real engineering background. Strong Python, comfortable with production systems and data, able to stand up the infrastructure your own experiment needs

Tags: AI Platform Group