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NeoCognition

Member of Technical Staff, Research (US)

NeoCognition • Palo Alto, CA

Company

NeoCognition

Annual salary

$280k – $350k/yr

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Listed

136d ago

Experience:
2+ years
Workplace:
5 days a week on-site in Palo Alto, CA. Relocation is supported, but fully remote is not an option unless the candidate is exceptional.
Visa:
Visa sponsorship available
Equity:
Competitive equity (likely in the range of 0.05 - 0.5%)

On-site in Palo Alto, CA. Visa sponsorship available.

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About this Role

As a Member of Technical Staff [Research] at NeoCognition, you'll be part of the core team advancing the frontier of LLM agents, systems that can reason, plan, and act reliably in the real world. We are an AI research lab focused on making LLM agents reliable, grounded, and accessible to users, developers and enterprises. You'll lead end-to-end research projects, from conceptualization and experimentation to building and testing product prototypes, working closely with our engineers and designers to turn ideas into practical, impactful systems.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research initiatives in the areas of LLM reasoning, post-training, and agentic system design.

  • Develop new methods to improve capability, reliability, and safety of autonomous LLM agents in real-world environments.

  • Collaborate with software and platform engineers to prototype and productionize research outcomes into sticky product experiences.

  • Design and execute experiments, benchmark performance, and analyze model behaviors to identify failure modes and opportunities.

  • Stay abreast of emerging work in reasoning, multi-agent systems, RLHF, tool use, and LLM fine-tuning, and contribute to publications or open-source efforts where appropriate.

  • Help shape the research culture and technical roadmap of the company as an early member of the team.

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The listing gives the location as Palo Alto, CA. 5 days a week on-site in Palo Alto, CA. Relocation is supported, but fully remote is not an option unless the candidate is exceptional. Visa sponsorship available.

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