# Research Member of Technical Staff- Applied Research at Rhoda

- Company: Rhoda
- What the company does: Redefining Robotic Intelligence. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://www.rhoda.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rhoda-ai/985ceeb2-1fa7-44ab-b2d4-487c9516970b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rhoda-research-member-of-technical-staff-applied-research/

## About the role

Work directly with customers and partners to understand application requirements and translate them into concrete model adaptation strategies Fine-tune and adapt our foundation world models for domain-specific tasks, environments, and operational constraints

## What they're looking for

- Strong ML research and engineering skills with hands-on experience fine-tuning or adapting large models
- Ability to move fluidly between customer requirements and technical implementation
- Solid understanding of modern ML pipelines: pre-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment
- Comfort working across teams — research, engineering, and customer-facing functions
- Strong communication skills: ability to explain model behavior and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences
- Experience in a customer-facing, applied research, or solutions engineering role

Tags: Research