Senior RL Researcher: Async Systems for Frontier Models

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thinking machines labMillbrae (CA)

Computer and Information Research Scientists Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

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About the role

Thinking Machines is seeking a researcher to own the boundary between reinforcement learning algorithms and the underlying systems. The role focuses on high-training-compute, long-horizon RL, with a center of gravity around asynchronous RL and integration with inference constraints. You will co-design the RL recipe and the systems, advance async RL, and run frontier-scale RL end-to-end. Candidates should have strong Python and DL framework experience, and a PhD or equivalent research background

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