AI Research Engineer

Zealous Agency
📍 remote, remote, United-Kingdom 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 12, 2026

Job Description

Founding AI Research Engineer

Remote (UK only)

£180,000 - £280,000 base + equity DOE


This is one of those founding-team opportunities that you can’t afford to miss. It’s at a well-funded AI research lab about to blast out of stealth mode, doing some novel work at the frontier of reinforcement learning.


They’re moving into their next phase of growth after closing funding and are already working alongside major frontier AI labs.


As a Founding RL Researcher, you will lead efforts to build novel algorithms and environments for training autonomous agents to do long horizon tasks. You will have real influence over technical direction from day one and work directly with experienced second-time founders.


Core skills and experience required


  • Strong background in reinforcement learning
  • Hands-on post-training experience: RLHF, GRPO etc
  • Ex...

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Job Details

  • Location remote, remote
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Other-General
  • Posted Date June 12, 2026
  • Application Deadline July 22, 2026