Hiring: Research Scientist Company: Tessera Labs Location: San Jose, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 12:54:08 Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, SAP, Salesforce, Snowflake, Workday About the job Required Skills: •Two properties make this an unusually good research setting. First, much of the task space is verifiable •You'll invent methods rather than only apply them, work with Research Engineers who help you run at scale, and hear from a product team within weeks whether you were right. •We'd like you to publish. Not everything, and never at the expense of shipping — but the work here is novel enough to be worth writing down. •One thing worth knowing up front: we post-train open-weight models on rented clusters and buy more compute when a result justifies it. We're constrained relative to a frontier lab. If your research only works at ten thousand GPUs, this is the wrong place. •Set and pursue a research agenda on reliable long-horizon agentic behavior in real enterprise environments — you decide which questions matter, and defend the choice. •Invent and validate methods for post-training agents on transformation work: reward design where verification is partial, delayed, or contested; RL formulations for long-horizon planning and tool use; curriculum and data strategy. Post-training and RL are the core of this role. •Own the question of what to measure. Develop evaluation methodology whose scores predict customer-observed correctness, and demonstrate where cheap automated proxies quietly fail. •Study how multi-agent systems fail — error compounding across long trajectories, planning under partial observability of a landscape, delegation and verification between agents — and design against it. Compensation: •$200,000 - $300,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!