Founding AI Research Scientist / Engineer (Post-Training, RL, Agents)
Join a seed or Series A AI research startup in the Bay Area as a founding or early team member, working on cutting-edge problems in post-training, RL, and agentic systems. Own end-to-end research and engineering, from designing experiments to shipping models into production. Ideal for candidates with strong research backgrounds and hands-on experience in SFT, RLHF, RL, evals, or computer-use models.
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Founding & Early Research Roles | San Francisco / Bay Area (On-site) | $160K–$450K + Meaningful Equity
The frontier labs get the headlines. The small, elite teams building what those labs depend on get the hardest problems, the most ownership and the equity to match.
I'm hiring for several seed and Series A AI research companies, all based in the Bay Area, all backed by top-tier investors, and all with teams of fewer than 15 people. Here's what they're building:
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