# Member of Technical Staff - Open Endedness 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/4056500009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vmax-member-of-technical-staff-open-endedness/

## About the role

A core focus of ours is agents that can learn to find their own objectives in the world. We are looking for researchers to design and build new ways of using RL where the formulation of rewards and tasks need to be discovered, rather than given.

## What they're looking for

- PhD or equivalent experience in machine learning, reinforcement learning, artificial intelligence, or a closely related field
- Track record of strong technical work, demonstrated through publications, open-source projects, deployed systems, competitions, or equivalent contributions
- Deep understanding of reinforcement learning
- Strong interest in open-ended learning
- Experience with LLM post-training
- Strong empirical research ability, including designing experiments, choosing meaningful baselines, running ablations, and diagnosing unexpected results

Tags: Research and Engineering