Member of Technical Staff - Research
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Job Description
As a Member of Technical Staff (Research) at Trajectory, you will design and build the post‑training stack that lets our customers’ models continually learn from real production workflows. You will own end‑to‑end experiments across data, training, and evaluation: shaping telemetry into learnable signals, training and serving custom LLMs and agents, and designing novel algorithms. You’ll work directly with the founders and design partners, make foundational technical and product decisions, and help define both the culture and architecture of a company whose core mission is to enable continually learning intelligence.
Required Qualifications
- Experience training or serving large language models
- Experience building RL environments or evaluation suites for LLMs
- Proficiency in PyTorch, JAX, or similar ML frameworks
- Strong experimental design skills
- Master’s / research experience
Preferred
- Background in pre- or post-training RL for LLMs
- Experience with high-performance computing or large-scale clusters
- Contributions to open-source ML research or infrastructure
- Demonstrated technical creativity (research, OSS, side projects)
- PhD (last year of PhD), working on AI / RL open source projects
About Trajectory
Trajectory is a research and product lab creating the platform for continual learning.
AI is the most capable software ever built, and the least able to learn. Every valuable correction and edit that happens in a product evaporates at the next session. A few teams have closed this gap by hand-coupling their models to their products: Composer, Claude Code, Windsurf SWE-1.
Trajectory is the first scalable approach for every company: our platform unlocks the signal already sitting in product use, so companies can continuously post-train large-scale agentic models that outperform the frontier. Working with leading AI companies, including Decagon, Clay, Harvey, Mercor, and Rogo.
Founded by researchers from Deepmind, OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Amazon, and Scale. $15M led by Conviction, with Fei-Fei Li, Jeff Dean, and founders of Notion, Braintrust, Modal, Hugging Face, and Dropbox.
The team: Member of Technical Staff HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 4 open in Member of Technical Staff. 1 was posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in May: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Hugging Face (3 of 4), PyTorch (2 of 4)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Infra posted Oct 6
- Member of Technical Staff - Design Eng posted May 26
- Member of Technical Staff - Generalist posted May 7
From the team and dates on Trajectory's own job board.
Salary context
5 other open postings titled Member of Technical Staff - Research state a salary: median USD 150,000 to USD 300,000 a year.
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