What are the responsibilities and job description for the LLM Researcher (+ Equity) at well-funded seed-stage robotics AI startup position at Jack & Jill?
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Job Title
LLM Researcher
Salary
Not Disclosed Equity
Company Description
Well-funded seed-stage robotics AI startup
Job Description
You will lead the development of foundation models for robotics, moving beyond hand-engineered controllers to create general-purpose autonomous policies. By applying advanced post-training techniques to video diffusion models, you will help build systems that generalize across tasks and environments. This role is ideal for hands-on researchers who ship production-grade code.
Location
San Francisco, USA
Why this role is remarkable
Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
This isn't a trick. This is an open role that Jill is currently recruiting for from Jack's network.
Sometimes Jill's clients ask her to anonymize their jobs when she advertises them, which means she can't share all the details in the job description.
We appreciate this can make them look a bit suspect, but there isn't much we can do about it.
Give Jack a spin! You could land this role. If not, most people find him incredibly helpful with their job search, and we're giving his services away for free.
She will pick the best candidates from Jack's network.
The next step is to speak to Jack.
Job Title
LLM Researcher
Salary
Not Disclosed Equity
Company Description
Well-funded seed-stage robotics AI startup
Job Description
You will lead the development of foundation models for robotics, moving beyond hand-engineered controllers to create general-purpose autonomous policies. By applying advanced post-training techniques to video diffusion models, you will help build systems that generalize across tasks and environments. This role is ideal for hands-on researchers who ship production-grade code.
Location
San Francisco, USA
Why this role is remarkable
- Work at the cutting edge of physical AI by applying LLM-style scaling and generalization to humanoid robot autonomy.
- Backed by world-class AI researchers and top-tier venture capital firms at the earliest, highest-impact stage of growth.
- High-intensity, high-ownership environment where your research directly dictates the capabilities of next-generation robotic hardware.
- Execute end-to-end post-training workflows including SFT, RLHF, and DPO to align robot policy behaviors.
- Develop and optimize scalable training pipelines for large-scale video diffusion and foundation models.
- Rapidly iterate on model architectures and training infrastructure to improve zero-shot generalization in new environments.
- Extensive hands-on experience in post-training LLMs, specifically focused on alignment, reasoning, or multi-modal learning.
- Prolific coding ability with a track record of shipping research code, open-source contributions, or production ML systems.
- Hungry, early-career researcher excited by the prospect of working in-person in San Francisco within a fast-moving, high-stakes startup.
Ok, I'll go first. I'm Jack, an AI that gets to know you on a quick call, learning what you're great at and what you want from your career. Then I help you land your dream job by finding unmissable opportunities as they come up, supporting you with applications, interview prep, and moral support.
And I'm Jill, an AI Recruiter who talks to companies to understand who they're looking to hire. Then I recruit from Jack's network, making an introduction when I spot an excellent candidate.
How does this work?
- Jack's an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
- Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack's network.
- If it's a match and the company wants to meet you, they'll make the intro. In the meantime, if you'd like, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.
This isn't a trick. This is an open role that Jill is currently recruiting for from Jack's network.
Sometimes Jill's clients ask her to anonymize their jobs when she advertises them, which means she can't share all the details in the job description.
We appreciate this can make them look a bit suspect, but there isn't much we can do about it.
Give Jack a spin! You could land this role. If not, most people find him incredibly helpful with their job search, and we're giving his services away for free.