Research Scientist
Cursor · Engineering
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States · New York, NY, United States
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
- Workplace
- On-site
- Level
- Unspecified
- Type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 9 months ago
- Source
- Ashby
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What the posting covers
About the company
Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense.…
About the role
We’re looking for Research Scientists who can drive effective RL or mid-training research in a small-team setting. You’ll own ambiguous, hard research problems end-to-end: forming hypotheses, designing experiments, building the training/eval/data needed to…
What you’ll do
Improve our understanding of RL, what it takes to handle longer horizon tasks, and train with less compute Train graders to improve performance on coding tasks with non-verifiable reward Improve the quality and difficulty of datapoints we use for training our…
You may be a fit if
You have a deep background in RL and strong machine learning fundamentals You’re an excellent programmer and software engineer You can handle ambiguous research tasks with little guidance You care a lot about data quality, and can dive into the data when…
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