AI Research Engineer

Code Metal

📍 boston, davao oriental, Philippines

Full-time Engineering Posted June 06, 2026

Job Description

In this role, you will collaborate with a small team of talented researchers on ambitious, greenfield projects in generative AI and reinforcement learning.

Core responsibilities:

  • Design, execute, and analyze experiments with a high degree of independence
  • Contribute to core models and frameworks
  • Create high-quality datasets (both in-the-wild and synthetic)
  • Perform literature reviews and implement new techniques from papers
  • Contribute to publications, present at conferences and workshops, etc.

Research Areas of Interest:

An incomplete list of current and near-term research directions:

  • Contrastive representation learning
  • Steerability and guided decoding
  • Tractable probability models
  • Code-specific architectures
  • LLM fine-tuning, post-training, RLHF

Qualifications:

  • Ph.D. in Comput...