The Sakana AI RSI Lab is a dedicated research group within Sakana AI, tasked with redesigning the AI development process itself with AI. By transitioning from static, human-led R&D to autonomous, self-improving intelligence engines, we are turning constraints into our greatest compounding advantage. Working directly with our Co-Founder and CEO David Ha (@hardmaru), we are building the definitive architecture for the next frontier of AI.
Please read our announcement about this moonshot effort.
The establishment of our RSI Lab marks a serious commitment to engineering the next great leap in computational intelligence: transitioning from human-led R&D to autonomous, self-improving intelligence engines. Bolstered by Japan’s strategic push for sovereign AI capabilities, we are scaling our research and engineering resources in Tokyo to initiate a compounding intelligence explosion in order to achieve this mission.
We are looking for exceptional, highly driven individuals to join us in building the engine of recursive discovery.
Who We Are Looking For
We are seeking a select group of distinguished Frontier Research Scientists and Advanced Core Engineers to join our core team.
You are a recognized innovator in the global AI/ML community. We are looking for distinguished individuals whose past work have already demonstrated a global impact and are widely acknowledged to have fundamentally altered the trajectory of the AI/ML ecosystem.
You have likely produced contributions at top frontier labs or pioneered foundational frameworks, and you are entirely unsatisfied with the status quo. You have a proven track record at the frontier, but you are ready to break away from standard benchmarking and brute-force scaling to build the self-improving future.
What You Will Do
- Discover fundamental new laws of machine intelligence that bend the scaling curve.
- Apply open-ended evolutionary dynamics to high-stakes algorithmic domains, such as cybersecurity.
- Build the systems and infrastructure backbone of the RSI loop, optimizing high-dimensional search pipelines, managing massive distributed compute topologies, and productionizing automated code-generation stacks at an extreme engineering scale.
If you are a visionary builder ready to relocate to Japan and engineer the engine of recursive discovery, we invite you to apply.
Note on Applications
Please note that this specific role is highly selective. If you are passionate about our mission but your background does not perfectly align with this frontier profile, we strongly encourage you to explore our other open positions, including the research-focused Software Engineer (R&D) position and the Member of Technical Staff (Internship) position, on our careers page. If you are seeking an internship role at Sakana AI, please apply for the Member of Technical Staff (Internship) position instead.