Technical Staff - Search Guidance

Ndea is building AGI systems that depend on search guidance. We're hiring hands-on researchers/engineers to drive our deep learning effort in search guidance, training models to make structured search more efficient and reliable.

This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to operate at the leading edge of neuro-symbolic AI, designing, implementing, and validating new approaches in code.

We offer:

• Meaningful equity, competitive salary, and benefits
• Aggressive compute budget
• Small, high-talent-density, globally remote team (work from any country)

Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience building and debugging RL or search-driven learning systems
• Research contributions in reinforcement learning, planning, or search (papers and/or industry work)
• Evidence of turning research ideas into working implementations
• Comfort operating as an individual contributor in a small, high-agency environment
• Interest in symbolic approaches (program synthesis, logic, solvers, formal methods, etc.)
• Clear communication and documentation skills for complex research/engineering workflows

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with search-guided learning in structured or combinatorial domains
• Work in planning-heavy, exploration-heavy, or solver-adjacent settings
• Familiarity with discrete mathematics, verification, or theorem-proving style problems

This role may not be a fit if you’re primarily focused on…

• LLM-only RLHF or post-training pipelines
• World model scaling or agent abstraction layers as the main artifact

Ndea is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Interview Process

1. Application Review

   We review applications on a rolling basis. If there’s a strong match, we’ll reach out to schedule next steps.

2. Intro Conversation (30min)

   A short call to discuss your background, interests, and alignment with the role.

3. Founder Conversations (1hr each)

   Separate discussions with Co-CEOs Mike Knoop and François Chollet focused on technical depth, research opinions, and long-term vision.

4. Technical Discussion with Research Teammate (1hr)

   A deeper dive into your past work and how you approach problem solving.

We aim to move quickly and keep the process focused. We’ll keep you informed at each step.