Research Engineer, UniversesActive$500K

The opportunity

The Universes team within Research is responsible for training AI models to perform complex, difficult, long-horizon agentic tasks in ultra-realistic settings. We design and implement novel training environments that go far beyond what models can do today — environments where…

What you'll do

  • Build the next generation of agentic environments

  • Build rigorous evaluations that measure real capability

  • Collaborate across research and infrastructure teams to ship environments into production training

  • Debug and iterate rapidly across research and production ML stacks

  • Contribute to research culture through technical discussions and collaborative problem-solving

  • Are highly impact-driven: you care about outcomes, not activity

What they're looking for

  • Operate with high agency
  • Have good research taste or senior technical experience, demonstrating good: judgment in identifying what actually matters in complex problem spaces
  • Can balance research exploration with engineering implementation
  • Are passionate about the potential impact of AI and are committed to developing safe and beneficial systems