Yara
AI Research Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-siteGeneral Application$200K - $400K (varies by company)
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Real role
A Research Engineer / Member of Technical Staff role in the Yara Network, focusing on AI model development from research to product, for those who thrive in fast-paced, in-person environments.
Responsibilities
- Build RL environments and evaluation systems
- Optimize AI models for performance
- Develop infrastructure for research to product transition
- Reproduce research papers and stay current
- Write training loops and serving services
Requirements
- Trained, fine-tuned, or evaluated models hands-on
- Understand system architecture beyond wrappers
- Possess strong engineering fundamentals for ML
- Live in or relocate to San Francisco
- Demonstrated work in AI/ML
Qualifications
- 1 to 6 years of experience or strong research record
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch
- Experience with LLM training, evals, or inference optimization
- Familiarity with RL, post-training, or synthetic data
- Published results or open-source contributions