Research Fellowship - Open Endedness is open at Vmax in SF. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $172K. Posted on Nov 5, 2025, and still on Vmax’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
A core focus of ours is agents that can learn to find their own objectives in the world. We are looking for researchers to design and build new ways of using RL where the formulation of rewards and tasks need to be discovered, rather than given. This 3 to 6 month fellowship is for PhD students or equivalent early-career researchers who want to work on LLMs that can learn in open-ended settings. You will own a…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Vmax’s careers page.
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