Rational Dynamics

Forward Deployed Engineer

We captured this posting once, on 2026-07-06, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Rational Dynamics
Location
Berkeley, CA · New York, NY
Seniority
Mid level
Experience asked for
5+ years
Pay band
$180K – $250K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-06-18 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-07-06 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

backend engineeringproduct thinkingcustomer empathystakeholder collaborationproduction-grade application shippingclarity of thoughtcustomer focuspythonjavac++gorust

From the posting

The Company Rational Dynamics builds customized AI reasoning systems for tasks of high cognitive complexity. Our initial market is the world’s leading institutional asset owners. We work very closely with these customers to create specialized, rigorous benchmark datasets encompassing their most valuable and difficult knowledge work. Then we use the benchmarks to construct agentic large reasoning models, applying the same rigor to prove that the models correctly do the work. Customers access the models through a tailored application service, making their most skilled, expensive workers dramatically more productive. We are an early-stage startup. Our founders previously started Voleon, now one of the world’s largest systematic investment managers, and recognized as a longstanding industry leader in applied machine learning. …

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