Ndea, a YC W26 startup, is building AGI systems that depend on search guidance and is hiring a symbolic RL search guidance lead. The company seeks hands-on researchers and engineers to drive deep learning efforts in making structured search more efficient and reliable. This high-ownership role involves designing, implementing, and validating new approaches in code.

The position offers meaningful equity, competitive salary, benefits, and an aggressive compute budget within a small, high-talent-density, globally remote team. Ndea emphasizes equal opportunity employment and provides a $10,000 referral bonus for successful hires who stay 30 days. Candidates should have strong experience with RL or search-driven learning systems and research contributions in reinforcement learning, planning, or search.

Applicants must demonstrate turning research ideas into working implementations and operating as individual contributors in high-agency environments. The role requires interest in symbolic approaches like program synthesis, logic, solvers, and formal methods. Nice-to-have qualifications include experience with search-guided learning in structured domains and familiarity with discrete mathematics or verification problems.