Member of the Technical Staff

The role

This role spans the algorithmic core of the RSI loop and high-performance systems. You will design core algorithms, push reasoning strategies, and build infrastructure to run research and optimization loops autonomously at scale.

What you will do

• Improve the RSI loop by designing and building core algorithms
• Propose and test novel, task-specific reasoning strategies
• Build dynamic harnesses to synthesize task-specific execution environments
• Architect orchestration for highly parallelized workflows
• Build diagnostic pipelines to probe capability boundaries
• Route knowledge-gap failures into SFT data pipelines
• Run high-performance infrastructure against external, third-party LLMs
• Keep loops interpretable through transparent code and clear diagnostics

Required qualifications

• Autonomy to turn well-defined and highly ambiguous ideas into production-grade reality
• First-principles understanding of LLM reasoning and failure modes
• Hands-on experience with LLM quirks
• Fully on-site in Los Altos
• Commitment to code quality, rigorous testing, performance profiling, deliberate architectural design, and clear communication

About the company

Poetiq is a high-leverage team of 10 engineers and researchers. The engineering culture is collaborative, mentorship-driven, and deeply inclusive.