AI/ML Research Engineer at Generalcatalyst.com

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Job Title: AI/ML Research Engineer

Company Description: Generalcatalyst.com - YC W26 startup building computer-use agents

Job Description:
Join a high-signal team building the world’s fastest computer-use agents for enterprise workflows. You will transition rapidly from research to production, developing reasoning models and vision-language systems that automate complex manual tasks at 10x speed. This is a rare opportunity for an early-career researcher to shape the core intelligence of a winning YC startup.

Location: San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable:

• Ground-floor opportunity at a Y Combinator W26 company with significant strategic backing and early enterprise traction.

• Direct impact on core technology, working closely with founders to define how agents reason, plan, and execute at scale.

• High-velocity research environment that prioritizes shipping production-quality systems over purely theoretical academic exercises.

What you will do:

• Design and implement novel agentic architectures for GUI automation using large reasoning models and chain-of-thought frameworks.

• Develop multi-agent coordination strategies, managing complex context, memory, and resource utilization for autonomous task execution.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy research prototypes into production environments for real-world enterprise customer use cases.

The ideal candidate:

• Holds a PhD or Master’s in CS/AI from a top-tier institution with a strong track record of research or high-impact projects.

• Possesses deep technical expertise in PyTorch, agentic orchestration (LangChain/AutoGPT), and vision-language models for screen understanding.

• Demonstrates the ability to move from research papers to working prototypes with the speed and rigor required in a fast-paced startup.

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