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Applied AI Researcher, System Self-Improvement

United States, San Francisco 130000.00 - 250000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 08, 2026
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The System Self-Improvement team builds architectures that continuously evaluate and enhance their own performance. Researchers design feedback-driven systems capable of detecting weaknesses, generating corrective hypotheses, and implementing their own improvements through reflection, retraining, or workflow adaptation. The goal: build AI systems that compound in capability through use. Researchers in Self-Improvement study how systems can form self-models—understanding when, why, and how they succeed or fail. They explore reflective reasoning, reward modeling, and self-evaluation techniques to enable autonomous evolution. This work bridges reinforcement learning, interpretability, and meta-optimization to pioneer continuously learning enterprise systems.

Job Responsibility

  • Design feedback-driven systems capable of detecting weaknesses, generating corrective hypotheses, and implementing their own improvements
  • Study how systems can form self-models
  • Explore reflective reasoning, reward modeling, and self-evaluation techniques to enable autonomous evolution

Requirements

  • Experience Building Feedback-Driven Systems
  • Experience Building with Models, Not Just Building Models
  • Proven Track Record of Research Results
  • Uses AI Every Day
  • Strong Programming and Data Analysis Skills
  • Biases Towards Showing vs Telling

What we offer

  • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
  • 401(k) with additional perks (e.g., commuter benefits, in‑office lunch)
  • Access to state‑of‑the‑art models, generous usage of modern AI tools, and real‑world business problems
  • Ownership of high‑impact projects across top enterprises
  • A mission‑driven, fast‑moving culture that prizes curiosity, pragmatism, and excellence
  • Meaningful equity

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