Research Engineer - Agency and Reasoning

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 data engineering and synthetic data generation

• Postgraduate degree in a scientific subject (Computer Science, EE/EECS, Mathematics, Physics)

• Previously published machine learning research in well-respected venues

• Highly proficient with PyTorch and Python

• We are excited and able to rapidly learn new fields and implement new ideas

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale