# Member of Technical Staff, Reinforcement Learning at Outerport

- Company: Outerport (YC S24)
- What the company does: EDA for Industrial Control Systems. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://outerport.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Tokyo, JP
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/outerport/jobs/mWxrJo8-member-of-technical-staff-reinforcement-learning
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/outerport-member-of-technical-staff-reinforcement-learning/

## 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)

Tags: Engineering