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Research Engineer - Agency and Reasoning

Zyphra · San Francisco · On-site

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About Zyphra

The future of intelligence is open.

About the role

As a Research Engineer - Agency and Reasoning , you will be a core contributor to Zyphra’s Agency and Reasoning Team. You will be involved with performing novel research in reinforcement learning, post-training, and human preference learning, and applying your ideas at scale to our next generation of language models.

What they're looking for

  • Strong research taste and intuition
  • The ability to work through a research project from conception to execution to write-up
  • Strong implementation and prototyping skillset
  • A researcher who can take an idea from conception to experimentation extremely quickly
  • The ability to work well and cooperate with others in a high-paced research setting
  • Curiosity, interest, and joy in understanding intelligence
More about this role

As a Research Engineer - Agency and Reasoning , you will be a core contributor to Zyphra’s Agency and Reasoning Team. You will be involved with performing novel research in reinforcement learning, post-training, and human preference learning, and applying your ideas at scale to our next generation of language models.

Strong research taste and intuition

The ability to work through a research project from conception to execution to write-up

Strong implementation and prototyping skillset

A researcher who can take an idea from conception to experimentation extremely quickly

The ability to work well and cooperate with others in a high-paced research setting

Curiosity, interest, and joy in understanding intelligence.

Experience and aptitude with reinforcement learning, either in the context of language model reasoning or more classical RL tasks

Experience with language-model-supervised fine-tuning and preference-learning methods, such as DPO and simPO.

Experience with context-length extension methods

A good intuitive ability to understand model behaviors and correct them through iterative fine-tuning

Interest in grappling in detail with data and spending significant time involved in...

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