Research Engineer (Reinforcement Learning)

Livekit·North America·Remote·Posted 18 August 2026

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ABOUT LIVEKIT LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe agents in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice AI applications for OpenAI, xAI, Salesforce, Coursera, Spotify, and thousands of others, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year. ABOUT THIS ROLE We are looking for an exceptional engineer to build post-training at LiveKit. Our agents run over voice and increasingly over text channels like SMS and chat, and the interesting problems show up over long horizons: staying useful across many sessions, working with context that accumulates over time, and using tools reliably in the middle of a live conversation. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build the environments and verifiers our models train against - Own the synthetic data pipeline, from generation through the quality gates - Run training experiments end to end, and explain what moved the model - Build the evaluations a release has to clear - Choose and adapt open-weight base models for our tasks - Make trained behavior hold up for voice and text agents alike -…

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