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.