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Staff+ Research Engineer – Recursive Self-Improvement Lead

Sequen · United States · Remote

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About Sequen

Drive continuous revenue lift with Sequen. Discover how our self-improving recursive intelligence layer powers in-session personalization for the world. Backed by Threshold Ventures.

About the role

RRI already does ML research on real client problems, and the models it trains serve production traffic at some of the world's largest retailers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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Sequen builds Recursive Ranking Intelligence (RRI): an autonomous research engine in which a team of AI agents does the work of an ML research team, autonomously or together with ML researchers, in our clients' own clouds or on Sequen-hosted instances. The models RRI produces serve production traffic for the world's largest retailers, marketplaces and travel platforms, alongside Sequen's ranking platform, which runs frontier ranking models in production at sub-25ms latency and enterprise scale. Each gain compounds into revenue and margin lift measured in hundreds of millions of dollars per customer.

We are a small, highly technical, early-stage team turning recent advances in AI into production systems that operate under unforgiving real-world constraints.

RRI already does ML research on real client problems, and the models it trains serve production traffic at some of the world's largest retailers.

We're looking for a Staff+ Research Engineer to join leadership of our work on recursive self-improvement (RSI): making RRI better at doing research, not only at doing more of it. You will set the research agenda, run the experiments, and ship what works into a system our clients run...

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