Vmax

Technology

MemberofTechnicalStaffOpenEndedness

$300–500k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Member of Technical Staff - Open Endedness at Vmax. Skills: Open-ended learning, Reinforcement Learning, AI research. Develop RL methods for agents. Discover useful objectives”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Ambiguous research problems; Turn high-level ideas into experiments

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

PhD or equivalent experience, Track record of technical work, Deep understanding of RL, Interest in open-ended learning, Experience with LLM post-training, Programming ability in Python, Experience with PyTorch or JAX, Ability to work independently, Ability to collaborate effectively, Clear written and verbal communication

Nice to Have

Experience with open-ended learning, Experience with automatic curriculum generation, Experience with intrinsic motivation, Experience with self-play, Experience with goal-conditioned RL, Experience with unsupervised skill discovery, Experience with multi-agent RL, Experience with quality-diversity, Experience with evolutionary methods, Familiarity with POET, Familiarity with population-based training, Familiarity with multi-agent RL, Experience designing benchmarks, Experience designing evals, Demonstrated taste for identifying research directions

What You'll Do.

Develop RL methods for agents

Discover useful objectives

Design systems for open-ended learning

Investigate agent objective collapse

Own and develop research agenda

Identify promising directions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with researchers; Collaborate with engineers

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication; Technical ideas communication; Results communication; Tradeoffs communication; Risks communication

Process & Methodology

Research agenda management

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