Description
As a Research Engineer at Metis, you’ll work on building the next generation of autonomous post-training systems that leverage our Mantis platform. You’ll operate at the intersection of cutting-edge ML research and scalable engineering, designing, implementing, and deploying algorithms that improve how AI agents learn from feedback, synthetic data, and real-world interactions.
You’ll move seamlessly between papers and production, leading large-scale experiments, creating optimized training pipelines, and helping shape the future of post-training autonomy. You’ll have significant ownership, high compute budgets, and the mandate to push the state of the art in applied reinforcement and preference optimization.
What You'll Do
- Research and help build an autonomous post-training agent leveraging the Mantis platform
- Design and execute large-scale experiments on synthetic data generation and algorithmic architecture
- Develop and refine methods for reinforcement learning, reward modeling, and human feedback integration
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Core and Platform Engineering to deploy and evaluate models in production settings
- Publish or contribute to leading-edge research in the post-training domain
- Use tooling and compute efficiently to iterate on experimental pipelines and accelerate research velocity
Company
Metis is an applied-research and product lab that offers a post-training and continual-learning layer for enterprise agents. Its first product, Insight, uses an organization’s first-party data, tools, and environments to build a continuously learning agent stack. Insight generates training signals, runs offline and online RL, and evaluates agents to ensure correct tool use, contextual retention, and execution of long, multi-step workflows. The platform emphasizes observability, auditability, and safety while enabling scalable automation and reliability for enterprise customers.
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