Machine Learning Research Engineer, Agent Data Foundation - Enterprise GenAI · Scale

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:56:57 GMT
Engineering

Scale · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · $189,600-$237,000 USD · onsite

We are seeking a Machine Learning Research Engineer to join our Enterprise ML Research Lab. As a key member of our team, you will work on cutting-edge research to define the data flywheel that makes the whole machine move. This includes research around synthetic environments from task definitions, building agents for trace analysis, and contributing to a cutting-edge framework that automatically hill-climbs agent-building from an eval set.

You will:

Build synthetic data pipelines to generate enterprise environments to use for RL post-training

Create agents to convert traces from production into actionable insights to use to improve agents

Contribute to our agent building product which can construct other agents using coding agents + proprietary algorithms

Train state-of-the-art models, developed both internally and from the community, to deploy to our enterprise customers

Ideally, you'd have:

3+ years of building with LLMs in a production environment

Clear experiences with constructing high-quality data to use to improve an LLM/Agent

Publications in top conferences such as NEURIPS, ICLR, or ICML within the last two years

PhD or Masters in Computer Science or a related field

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You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.