Senior AI Researcher- Reinforcement learning (f/m/d)

Job description

Our Mission Aleph Alpha is one of the few companies in Europe with end-to-end in-house model development including pre- and post-training. We’re building models that have general-purpose capabilities, but also specifically excel at addressing the needs of our customers. We're growing our post-training team in Heidelberg (or hybrid in Germany) and are looking for an AI Researcher who combines a deep theoretical understanding of reinforcement learning methods with a desire to improve on the state of the art and improve model capabilities in large-scale training. Team Culture: At Aleph Alpha, we foster a culture built on ownership, autonomy, and empowerment. Teams and individual contributors are trusted to take responsibility for their work and drive meaningful impact. We maintain a flat organizational structure with efficient, supportive management that enables quick decision‑making, open communication, and a strong sense of shared purpose. About the role: As a (senior) AI Researcher for reinforcement learning you will shape and improve the underlying RL methodology, maintain a high-quality training code-base, and conduct large-scale experiments to hill-climb our performance benchmar...