Virtual Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineering — Applied Research & QA

Advance frontier AI capabilities from home as a Virtual Member of Technical Staff, Research Engineering — Applied Research & QA at TopChoice Recruiting (paying $400,000 - $800,000/year). Our cognitive talent team works directly on post-training alignment, reinforcement learning feedback, and domain verification across Reinforcement Learning, ML-Oriented Data Design, RL Environments, RL Workflows.

Key Contributions

• Deep experience in Reinforcement Learning, including environment design and training dynamics.
• Strong track record of building and scaling RL systems, pipelines, or experimentation frameworks.
• Proficient in automation and data generation, including synthetic data pipelines.
• Familiar with automated evaluation systems, model validation, and quality assurance workflows.
• Architect self-contained RL environments that capture complex, real-world tasks, including reward functions, verifiers, and evaluation logic.
• Design and scale episode pipelines and multi-component training processes (MCPs) to support reproducible experimentation.
• Build automated data generation systems, leveraging synthetic data to accelerate training cycles without compromising quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• Compensation Band: $400,000 - $800,000/year
• Work Location: Remote (100% Remote / Asynchronous Flexibility)
• Available Openings: 1 open position
• Core Competencies: Reinforcement Learning, ML-Oriented Data Design, RL Environments, RL Workflows
• Experienced in fine-tuning and evaluating open-source ML models.
• Clear, concise communicator with strong technical writing skills.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, research-driven, and highly collaborative environments.

Contract Rate & Schedule

• Compensation Rate: $400,000 - $800,000/year (contract specialist remuneration)
• Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
• Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Core Competencies: Reinforcement Learning, ML-Oriented Data Design, RL Environments, RL Workflows
• Hiring Agency: TopChoice Recruiting

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