# Member of Technical Staff - Applied RL at Vmax

- Company: Vmax
- What the company does: Vmax is automating reinforcement learning. We transform proprietary data and evals into new sets of environments. We refine agents on new examples of the tasks they are intended to perform. Backed by South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://vmax.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-11-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vmax/jobs/4056502009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vmax-member-of-technical-staff-applied-rl/

## About the role

This role is for exceptional ML engineers who can turn RL research ideas into working training systems, evals, environment and rewards. You will work across research and engineering to make post-training methods reliable, measurable, and fast to iterate on.

## What they're looking for

- Strong practical ML engineering ability, demonstrated through shipped systems, open-source projects, competitions, independent projects, or equivalent experience
- Hands-on experience building, training, evaluating, or debugging ML systems
- Strong programming ability in Python and experience with at least one major ML framework such as PyTorch or JAX
- Working understanding of reinforcement learning, supervised learning, optimization, and modern deep learning
- Ability to independently take an ambiguous technical problem and drive it to a working implementation
- Ability to collaborate closely with researchers while maintaining high engineering standards

Tags: Research and Engineering