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Tzafon

Member of Technical Staff - RL environments

Tzafon, San Francisco

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Tzafon is a research firm building scalable compute systems and advancing machine intelligence, with offices in San Francisco & Tel Aviv. We recently raised $9.7m in pre-seed funding to advance our mission of expanding the frontiers of machine intelligence.

We’re a team of engineers and scientists with deep backgrounds in ML infrastructure & research. Founded by IOI and IMO medalists, PhDs, and alumni from leading tech companies, we train models and build infrastructure for swarms of agents to automate work across real-world environments.

This role will focus on scaling RL environments for our foundation models. You'll work closely with our researchers to design and optimize these environments, ensuring they are efficient, scalable, and capable of handling complex real-world tasks. As part of a new team, you'll play a key role in scaling RL for end-to-end automation.

What You’ll Do

  • Architect and scale RL environments for Computer Use Agents, Reasoning models, and multi-agent systems

  • Create environments that capture both structured and open-ended tasks

  • Optimize simulation performance for millions of environment steps/sec

  • Build and maintain containerized, orchestrated training environments

  • Contribute to RL training pipelines, including rollout collection and distributed evaluation

  • Translate ambiguous, sparse-reward domains into modelable RL challenges

Who You Are

  • Deep experience in both reinforcement learning and infra/distributed systems

  • Proven track record scaling RL environments and infrastructure

  • Familiarity with Gymnasium, RLlib, Ray, or similar frameworks

  • Strong systems skills: containerization, orchestration (e.g. Nomad), and cloud-scale infra

  • Ability to model complex, real-world workflows for intelligent agents

  • Strong Rust, Python, Typescript skills and familiarity with RL-specific performance bottlenecks

  • Committed to building safe, scalable environments that guide real-world intelligent behavior

  • Excited to do your life’s most impactful work before AGI and ASI arrive

Life at Tzafon

  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus 401(k)

  • Office in SF and Tel Aviv

  • Early-stage equity in a future-defining company

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Compensation

Compensation starts at $150k-$425k and equity package.

We also offer a referral bonus of $20k for referral of successful hires (send to ).

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