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# Research Engineer, Hardware Intelligence

- **Company:** Nominal Inc
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Cursor, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Claude Code, Multi-Agent Systems, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/research-engineer-hardware-intelligence-austin-tx--5817bfeb-2289-409c-93fe-8dbd1c726d56

## About the Role

Robotics, Computer Engineering, Testing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Engineering, System Operations, Manufacturing, United States Air Force (USAF), Aerospace and Defense, Technical Leadership

## Description

* Hands-on experience improving an LLM or agent system through evals, data, post-training, or harness changes, and proving it worked.
 * Strong engineering: you write the pipeline, the training script, and the grader yourself.
 * Experimental judgment: you design experiments that dont fool you, and you know when a difference is real.
 * Comfort picking the next experiment when nobody can tell you what will work.
 * You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. The tools keep changing, and so do we.

️ Nice to have

 * Youve done post-training (SFT, RL from feedback or verifiable rewards, distillation) on real tasks.
 * Youve built RL environments, synthetic-data pipelines, or benchmarks that other people use.
 * Youve worked on computer-use agents, multi-agent systems, simulation, or edge deployment.
 * Youve worked with time-series, sensor, or scientific data, or with models built over it.
 * Youve been an engineer in hardware, test, controls, or robotics, or worked closely with those teams.