Member of Technical Staff - Research at Valkai
- Company: Valkai
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Salary: $200K – $350K • Offers Equity
- Posted: 2026-09-10
About the role
THE ROLE You'll turn difficult problems in real workflows into research questions, develop improvements across models and agent systems, and carry results into production. This role is for a researcher with strong engineering ability who can move between model training, experimentation, and applied AI systems, choosing the right approach for our users. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR - Deep ML foundations: You understand learning, optimization, probability, and statistics, and use that understanding to reason about model behavior and experimental results. - Hands-on model experience: You have trained, adapted, or improved models and can explain the decisions behind your work. You bring depth in areas such as post-training, reinforcement learning, etc. - Research judgment: You turn ambiguous problems into clear hypotheses, design experiments, and can develop new approaches.…
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