# Staff Research Engineer

Our mission at Onton is to help people make decisions they love, instantly. We’re tackling the most economically impactful decisions first: the average shopping journey takes 79 days, and we’re taking that to less than 1. Since our public launch in late 2023, we've grown exponentially to guide millions of users to their perfect product. We recently built the foundation of a neurosymbolic AI agent that learns more about the world on every search. You have the chance to solve equally difficult problems as you scale Onton 10x over the next few months to serve 1B+ searches/year, which is just the beginning. This is only the beginning. Providing a person with sufficient context to make any decision in a truly optimal way amounts to creating AGI. The economic engine we’re creating on the e-commerce side, while a huge opportunity in its own right, is ultimately to support this end. Paradigm shifts like the one we’re in - from narrow AI to human-level AGI and beyond - are vanishingly rare. We want to offer you the chance to do your life’s work solving the problem that will solve all other problems. Your opportunity Together we will create an AI agent capable of providing a person, or itsel

- **Id**: 862221
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/onton-staff-research-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-29T06:40:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T20:45:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 102
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5368
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 680700
- **Name**: Onton
- **Domain**: onton.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/onton>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 195000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **GPT-5** — Optional: no
- **Hallucination** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **World Models** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 102

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T10:44:16Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 3; Filings 12m: 3

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.367
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 101
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: no

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