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Member of Technical Staff, Reinforcement Learning

Outerport · San Francisco, CA, US / Tokyo, JP · On-site

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About Outerport

EDA for Industrial Control Systems. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

We’re looking for candidates with experience building reinforcement learning-based LLM training pipelines.

What they're looking for

  • Train reinforcement learning-based LLMs to solve tasks in the domain of materials science, chemical engineering, and engineering science
  • Integrate simulation tools and real hardware to collect data
  • Work with and source data from vendors
  • Evaluate, test, and deploy models
  • Industry experience or projects working on hard problems in machine learning (with Python / PyTorch)
  • Being scrappy (getting things done, over theoretical soundness)
More about this role

We’re looking for candidates with experience building reinforcement learning-based LLM training pipelines.

  • Train reinforcement learning-based LLMs to solve tasks in the domain of materials science, chemical engineering, and engineering science
  • Integrate simulation tools and real hardware to collect data
  • Work with and source data from vendors
  • Evaluate, test, and deploy models

Qualifications (none of these are hard requirements)

  • Industry experience or projects working on hard problems in machine learning (with Python / PyTorch)
  • Being scrappy (getting things done, over theoretical soundness)
  • Publication record in venues like ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, and others
  • Good visual taste / an appreciation for aesthetics
  • A reputation for having an “engineering mindset”
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience working with various engineering simulation tools (e.g. CAE, EDA tools)
  • Interest in manufacturing, engineering, EPC, semiconductors, materials science

Read the full posting on Outerport's site ↗

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