# Research Engineer - Agency and Reasoning at Zyphra

- Company: Zyphra
- What the company does: The future of intelligence is open.
- Company website: https://www.zyphra.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-03-17
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zyphra/470057a3-171e-49e6-b236-25941e356bf1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zyphra-research-engineer-agency-and-reasoning/

## 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

Tags: R&D - Engineering