Research Scientist
Idler — Reinforcement learning environments.
About the role
About idler idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models. After raising a $9m seed round led by Paradigm, we spent the last year…
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- First seen by JobLarper — Sep 4, 2026, 43 days ago. Older postings collect hundreds of applicants — a tailored résumé matters more the longer a role has been live.
- What Machine Learning Engineer roles ask for — across 1,197 indexed openings: ML (73%), AI/LLM (55%), Python (52%), REST/APIs (37%), Backend (21%). This posting names AI/LLM, Cloud, TypeScript.
- Idler is hiring actively — 5 open roles indexed, 1 first appeared in the last 30 days.
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