You study planning under uncertainty and limited authority: how an agent finishes meaningful work, and how it recognises when it needs a person. The second half is the harder and more important one, because an agent that never asks is an agent that eventually does something irreversible.
Open for applications. Starts at: Research program.
We are taking applications for this role now and building the pipeline for it. The stage above is when the work itself is expected to begin, which is something you deserve to know before you apply rather than after. It is context, not a gate.
Where
In the office together five days a week, in one of our garages, and remote-friendly around your family, arranged one person at a time. We hire across the United States 🇺🇸, India 🇮🇳 and the UAE 🇦🇪.
The work
Investigate task decomposition, tool selection, error recovery, uncertainty and learning from feedback. Use realistic environments with hidden failures and changing state. Keep authority outside model-generated text and work with product researchers on when asking a question improves the outcome.
The milestone
In your first 90 days, establish a task benchmark and demonstrate a planning improvement against a strong baseline with failure analysis.
Required
Nice to have
Evidence
Bring research in reasoning, reinforcement learning, planning or decision systems. You should be comfortable explaining a method's assumptions and why a success metric may be misleading.
Evidence, not credentials. We are describing work you can point at, in whatever form it exists.
The exercise
Analyze an agent that appears successful because it declares completion before the external service confirms the action.
The package
Indicative pay ranges by market and level are on the compensation page. Plan numbers are confirmed in your offer letter.
Apply
One short form. A person reads every application and you hear back either way. You will get your own link to check where things stand, and you can withdraw or delete your application from it at any time, without an account.
