AI Research Engineer, Normal Computing

• PhD in CS/AI/ML (or equivalent research experience) with publications ideally in multi‑agent RL, agentic AI, or RL for language/code
• Strong Python and ML framework experience (PyTorch preferred; JAX/HF a plus)
• Demonstrated ability to turn research into working systems; reproducibility mindset (tests, seeds, configs, logging)
• Experience designing eval harnesses and success metrics for sequential/agentic tasks
• Comfortable with data acquisition/curation from documents/logs; good instincts about data quality and licenses

Desirable

• We’re hiring an AI Researcher / AI Research Engineer to push the frontier of agentic LLMs and reinforcement learning for our agentic code generation tool, nectar
• You’ll design and run experiments, build agents, curate datasets from complex technical documents (e.g., chip specifications), and create rigorous evaluations
• You’ll write production‑quality research code and work closely with engineering to ship improvements to customers. Leadership not required—impact through research and building is
• Design and implement multi‑agent and RL approaches for agentic code generation and tool‑use
• Build research prototypes that integrate with nectar; collaborate to productionize wins
• Create evaluation suites: task specs, pass/fail checkers, coverage, cost/latency dashboards
• Acquire and curate datasets from PDFs/logs/tables; generate synthetic data where appropriate; maintain data cards and licensing
• Analyze experiments with disciplined ablations; document results and decisions
• Stay current on LLM agents, RL (offline/online, RLHF/RLAIF), constrained decoding, and program synthesis