Cerebro · 4 weeks ago
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Palo Alto, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$700K/yr - $800K/yrCerebro is a growing AI research lab seeking a founding AI Researcher to lead Post-Training efforts in transforming hardware design. The role involves developing and deploying AI models, tackling challenges in code generation and multimodal reasoning, while working alongside a highly experienced team.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Guy Williams
Responsibilities
Develop and deploy AI models that transform hardware design
Tackle challenges like code generation and multimodal reasoning
Build multi-agent systems that can radically change hardware design
Own Post-Training efforts alongside a highly experienced Head of AI
Work on novel RL ideas to support Post-Training breakthroughs
Qualification
Required
PhD in Computer Science, EECS, Mathematics, or a related field (or BS/MS with strong research engineering experience at leading labs or startups)
Deep experience building end-to-end ML pipelines, including data curation, model training, and post-training using RL
Proven ability to take models from research to real-world deployment
Hands-on with LLM/VLM deployment (vLLM, sgLang, LM Studio, Ollama, etc.) and distributed training (QLoRA, ZeRO, CUDA, PyTorch Parallelism)
Experience with RL post-training workflows, reward modeling, and environment design
Track record in code generation, reasoning, and tool use—especially in structured domains
Fast-moving, able to prototype, benchmark, and productionize ML pipelines with tight feedback loops
Excited to push the state-of-the-art in AI for real-world engineering challenges
Preferred
Experience at leading AI labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, etc.)
Publications in top ML conferences
Benefits
Significant autonomy and a meaningful equity stake.
Work with a world-class team on cutting-edge challenges.
Fast-paced, collaborative, and mission-driven environment.
Company
Cerebro
Cerebro partners with companies backed by some of the worlds most prominent VC funds (a16z, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia) and accelerator programs including a significant portion of the Y Combinator portfolio to solve startup's most critical hiring challenges across AI, ML & robotics
Miami, Florida, US
2-10 employeesFunding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase