About Polymath
Polymath is an applied research lab focused on advancing long-horizon agent capabilities through reinforcement learning. We design and scale simulation environments where agents learn to operate safely and autonomously. We work with the world’s leading model labs to push the frontier of agent capabilities. We've raised >$8M from Base10, Cervin Ventures, Founders Future, Y Combinator, and other incredible investors & angels.
About the role
As a Founding Strategic Projects Lead, you will work on some of Polymath’s highest-leverage initiatives across partnerships, data, and new market expansion. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who is excited to tackle open-ended problems and help shape the company’s trajectory. You’ll work closely with the founders on strategic efforts that are critical to Polymath’s growth. Examples of projects you would work on:
Creating best practices for organizing teams of domain experts, and working with the engineering team to improve platforms.
Scaling Polymath’s expert contributor network, including sourcing, evaluating, onboarding, and managing experts across technical fields.
Leading complex data projects from zero to one: from scoping customer needs and designing PRDs, to coordinating contributors, and ensuring data quality.
You’ll be a good fit if you:
Have prior experience with RL environments and frontier lab data sales
Have high agency and ownership
Enjoy working across different domains
Have strong writing abilities
Are technical
Perks:
🪷 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
🍽 Free meals with the team
🧘 Free Bay Club membership (right next door to our Embarcadero office!)
🚞 Commuter benefits
🏦 401(k)
🌎 Unlimited PTO
💻 Top of the line tech
🌁 Frequent team activities and outings
Culture:
Polymath is a team of researchers, engineers, and operators passionate about advancing the frontier of safe, superintelligent AI agents.
We have a flat organizational structure. We believe that people do their best work when they’re self-motivated and driven by a desire to learn, contribute to the team’s goals, and advance scientific progress.
We’re looking for folks who ship fast, set high standards for themselves, and are great team players. You’ll be a member of our founding team: have fun, learn a lot, and do high-impact work alongside great people.
About Polymath
Polymath is an applied research lab focused on advancing long-horizon agent capabilities through reinforcement learning. We design and scale simulation environments where agents learn to operate safely and autonomously. We work with the world’s leading model labs to push the frontier of agent capabilities. We've raised >$8M from Base10, Cervin Ventures, Founders Future, Y Combinator, and other incredible investors & angels.
About the role
We’re hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Research to help advance the frontier of autonomous agents. You’ll work on core research problems in long-horizon evaluation, agent post-training, and environment design, with a focus on understanding where current models fail and how to improve them. As a member of the founding team, you should expect to wear multiple hats: building benchmarks, creating environments, writing production code, and running rigorous experiments. We’re looking for people who are excited by hard open-ended problems and want to operate at the intersection of research and engineering. Examples of projects you could work on include:
Investigating failure modes of frontier models
Creating rigorous benchmarks that evaluate how well frontier agents perform on complex, realistic tasks requiring long-horizon reasoning and tool use in dynamic environments
Post-training agents that can reason, plan, and act over extended time horizons
Publishing research
You’ll be a good fit if you:
Have strong engineering & research fundamentals and are a prolific user of AI tools
Have experience post-training frontier models
Have experience shipping reliable, production-quality code
Have a track record of publications
Perks:
🪷 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
🍽 Free meals with the team
🧘 Free Bay Club membership (right next door to our Embarcadero office!)
🚞 Commuter benefits
🏦 401(k)
🌎 Unlimited PTO
💻 Top of the line tech
🌁 Frequent team activities and outings
Culture:
Polymath is a team of researchers, engineers, and operators focused on advancing the frontier of safe, superintelligent AI agents.
We have a flat organizational structure. We believe that people do their best work when they’re self-motivated and driven by a desire to learn, contribute to the team’s goals, and advance scientific progress.
We’re looking for folks who ship fast, set high standards for themselves, and are great team players. You’ll be a member of our founding team: have fun, learn a lot, and do high-impact work alongside great people.
About Polymath
Polymath is an applied research lab focused on advancing long-horizon agent capabilities through reinforcement learning. We design and scale simulation environments where agents learn to operate safely and autonomously. We work with the world’s leading model labs to push the frontier of agent capabilities. We've raised >$8M from Base10, Cervin Ventures, Founders Future, Y Combinator, and other incredible investors & angels.
About the role
We’re hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Engineering to build the systems that power our RL and contributor platforms. You’ll be a member of the founding team and should expect to wear multiple hats. While this role is engineering-leaning, we’re looking for people who are energized by hard technical problems and excited to operate at the intersection between engineering, research, and product. Examples of projects you could work on include:
Developing platforms that allow contributors to create RL environments
Designing QA agents to ensure data quality
Tooling to improve environment and task creation processes
You’ll be a good fit if you:
Have strong engineering fundamentals and are a prolific user of AI tools
Have experience with full-stack product development
Have experience with infrastructure, containerization, networking, and distributed systems
Have an interest in reinforcement learning environments
Perks:
🪷 Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
🍽 Free meals with the team
🧘 Free Bay Club membership (right next door to our Embarcadero office!)
🚞 Commuter benefits
🏦 401(k)
🌎 Unlimited PTO
💻 Top of the line tech
🌁 Frequent team activities and outings
Culture:
Polymath is a team of researchers, engineers, and operators focused on advancing the frontier of safe, superintelligent AI agents.
We have a flat organizational structure. We believe that people do their best work when they’re self-motivated and driven by a desire to learn, contribute to the team’s goals, and advance scientific progress.
We’re looking for folks who ship fast, set high standards for themselves, and are great team players. You’ll be a member of our founding team: have fun, learn a lot, and do high-impact work alongside great people.
About Polymath
Polymath is an applied research lab focused on advancing long-horizon agent capabilities through reinforcement learning. We design and scale simulation environments where agents learn to operate safely and autonomously. We work with the world’s leading model labs to push the frontier of agent capabilities. We've raised >$8M from Base10, Founders Future, Y Combinator, and other incredible investors & angels.
About the role
We’re hiring Software Engineers to build the simulation environments, tasks, and verifiers that challenge frontier models. You’ll help create the training and evaluation grounds that make it possible to measure and improve autonomous agents on realistic, challenging work.
Examples of projects you could work on include:
Building diverse, high-fidelity environments that test agents in realistic settings
Designing complex tasks that require long-horizon reasoning and tool use
Developing robust verifiers that reliably measure agent performance
Improving infrastructure and tooling to run, debug, and improve environments
Working closely with the research team to identify failure modes and turn them into new tasks and benchmarks
You’ll be a good fit if you:
Have strong engineering fundamentals
Enjoy building from first principles and solving open-ended technical problems
Have high agency and a strong bias toward shipping
Have a high quality bar and care about building robust systems
Culture:
Polymath is a team of researchers, engineers, and operators focused on advancing the frontier of safe, superintelligent AI agents.
We have a flat organizational structure. We believe that people do their best work when they’re self-motivated and driven by a desire to learn, contribute to the team’s goals, and advance scientific progress.
We’re looking for folks who ship fast, set high standards for themselves, and are great team players.