Lumaai

Research Scientist / Engineer – Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: California, New York, Washington.
Location as listed by the employer: “Redwood City, CA; Remote, US; New York, NY; Seattle, WA”
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About this role

Lumaai is hiring for a Research Scientist / Engineer – Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience post-training LLMs with RL (PPO/GRPO-family, RLHF, RLVR) at meaningful scale.
  • Extensive distributed PyTorch training and parallelism (FSDP, Tensor/Pipeline/Expert Parallel) for foundation models.
  • Experience building RL environments, reward functions, verifiers, or evaluation harnesses for LLM agents, including sandboxed execution and multi-turn tool use.
  • Deep familiarity with RL post-training frameworks (veRL, OpenRLHF, TRL, Ray orchestration) and rollout inference engines (vLLM, SGLang).
  • Strong understanding of GPU clusters, networking, and communication libraries (NCCL, MPI) under mixed training and inference workloads.

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