# Member of Technical Staff - Research at Polymath

- Company: Polymath
- What the company does: Simulation environments to train & evaluate long-horizon AI agents. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://polymathlabs.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymath/02503610-2a98-4760-9003-4177cf884c20
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/polymath-member-of-technical-staff-research/

## About the role

We’re hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Research to help advance the frontier of autonomous agents. You’ll work on core research problems in long-horizon evaluation, agent post-training, and environment design, with a focus on understanding where current models fail and how to improve them. As a member of the founding team, you should expect to wear multiple hats: building benchmarks, creating environments, writing production code, and running rigorous experiments.

Tags: Research & Engineering