Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI)
As a Member of Technical Staff on our Applied AI team, you will build the tasks and environments that AI labs use to train and evaluate their agents in finance, healthcare, and legal.
Hiring companyAptura
About the role
Day to day, that looks like: constructing RL environments around spreadsheets, documents, and professional workflows. Writing verification logic and reward functions. Working with domain experts to scope what a correct answer actually looks like in an LBO model or a clinical note. Some days it's engineering, some days it's closer to research. The common thread is that you're producing the ground truth that frontier models get measured against.
Responsibilities
Build RL environments across finance, healthcare, and legal domains.
Assist in designing tasks with golden answers, calibrated rubrics, and programmatic reward signals.
Write verification logic and reward functions that can distinguish good model outputs from bad ones.
Work directly with domain experts (investment analysts, physicians, attorneys) to translate complex professional workflows into structured tasks.
Prototype new approaches to evaluation, verification, and synthetic data generation.
Preferred skills
- Domain knowledge in finance, healthcare, or legal.
- Familiarity with RL concepts, model training, and post-training workflows.
- Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS or GCP).
- Previous startup experience, especially as an early engineer.
Experience and education
Practical experience building with LLMs: prompting, evaluation, and agentic harnesses. You've built things that actually run, not just notebooks.
High agency and technically sharp. You don't wait for permission, specs, or a roadmap. You see what needs doing, figure out how, and get it done.
Comfortable working across very different contexts. The job moves between engineering, evaluation design, and deep collaboration with domain experts often in the same day.
You ship and iterate. Small team, no room for work that sits in review. Bias toward getting something working, learning from it, and improving it.
You own problems end to end, from scoping with a domain expert through to a working environment. If you prefer clearly partitioned tickets, this probably isn't the right fit.
Already using LLMs as part of how you build, not just as the thing you're building for.
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