Member of Technical Staff, Reinforcement Learning

San Francisco, Tokyo
Full-time
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About the role

We’re looking for candidates with experience building reinforcement learning-based LLM training pipelines.

As part of our founding team you may:

  • Train reinforcement learning-based LLMs to solve tasks in the domain of materials science, chemical engineering, and engineering science
  • Integrate simulation tools and real hardware to collect data
  • Work with and source data from vendors
  • Evaluate, test, and deploy models

Qualifications (none of these are hard requirements)

  • Industry experience or projects working on hard problems in machine learning (with Python / PyTorch)
  • Being scrappy (getting things done, over theoretical soundness)
  • Publication record in venues like ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, and others
  • Good visual taste / an appreciation for aesthetics
  • A reputation for having an “engineering mindset”
  • Strong communication skills
  • Experience working with various engineering simulation tools (e.g. CAE, EDA tools)
  • Interest in manufacturing, engineering, EPC, semiconductors, materials science

About Outerport

EDA for Industrial Control Systems

Required skills

Torch/PyTorch
Machine Learning
LLMs

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Job details

Salary

$100,000 - $200,000

Equity

0.5% - 3%

Location

San Francisco, Tokyo

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameOuterport
IndustryEngineering, Product and Design
Team Size4

Funding

Total raised

$3.5M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Y Combinator
Pioneer Fund

Founders

Allen Wang

Allen Wang

Co-Founder & CTO

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Towaki Takikawa

Towaki Takikawa

Co-Founder & CEO

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.