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Acceler8 Talent ยท 4 hours ago

Senior Research Scientist

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$200K/yr - $300K/yr

Acceler8 Talent is focused on building AI systems with general physical ability. They are seeking a Senior LLM Research Scientist to develop models for planning, reasoning, and structured tool-use for autonomous engineering agents, from research to real-world deployment.

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Hiring Manager
Isabella Francois
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Responsibilities

Develop models and prompting frameworks for planning, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning
Lead SFT, RLHF/DPO, verifier-guided RL, and MoE routing strategies to improve agent robustness
Design schemas, tool-call policies, safety constraints, and failure recovery mechanisms for LLM agents
Collaborate across agent systems, data infrastructure, simulation, and tooling teams to train and evaluate models in real workflows

Qualification

LLM researchSFTRLHFDPOAgent systemsStructured tool-useLong-horizon reasoningDesign evaluationFast-moving environmentCollaboration

Required

Deep experience in LLM research, reasoning models, agent systems, or structured tool-use frameworks
Strong background in SFT, RLHF, DPO, or verifier-guided RL, with a track record of pushing model capabilities
Ability to design and evaluate long-horizon behaviours, decomposition strategies, and structured policy constraints
Comfortable working across ML, systems engineering, and real-world toolchains in a fast-moving research environment
Above all: demonstrable world-class excellence

Company

Acceler8 Talent

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Acceler8 Talent partners with technology companies to propel their funding and business forward.
dateFounded in 2019
location
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
http://www.acceler8talent.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Acceler8 Talent has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (1)
2023 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage

Leadership Team

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Sam McBroom
Director
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