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Research Scientist

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  • 0-3 years

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$200,000 - 500,000/ year

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About the company

The company is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models.

At the same time, we've expanded into other domains besides coding: RSI & Auto-Research, Law, Enterprise Business, Cybersecurity, and others. Now, we are facing more lab demand for our data than we can serve, and are rapidly scaling the team to grow the business.

Our approach to creating training data scales using technology, and all of our data products are built on a unified self-reinforcing platform that learns through experience.

You would be joining a close-knit team that has reached product market fit, and your work would directly help to multiply our revenue.

You can see some of our work here: the company's site (the company's site)

About the role

As a Research Scientist at the company, you'll own measuring and improving how models learn from our tasks. The job is to maximize learning signal we produce per unit time. You'll draw on your own experience and collaborate with researchers at the frontier to validate our data quality, identify where improvements are needed, and create new datasets. To succeed, you'll need to have extensive experience doing this work in production at a frontier lab.

Examples of what you’ll do

Work with our customers — researchers at frontier labs — to design novel post-training recipes and data quality measurement techniques

Design and run our in-house post-training stack to measure model lift on our tasks

Develop new data products based on datasets and experts available to us

Identify opportunities to take advantage of self-reinforcing exponential feedback loops

Create agents to analyze thousands of environments and millions of trajectories

Help curate and specify task distributions for new corpora

Work with procurement to ensure external data we acquire is suitable for refinement

Create scaleable systems for ingesting & evaluating data we are considering buying

Develop new techniques for mining data for signal

Requirements

  • 1+ years of experience doing RL in production at a frontier lab
  • Track record of post-training an LLM end to end
  • Desire to drive the research roadmap and implementation on a fast-moving team
  • Deep curiosity about how machines learn from data and how to extract the maximum learning signal from our tasks
  • Tech stack
  • Typescript, React, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cursor/Claude Code/Codex, Tinker, Modal, AWS, Daytona, GRPO
  • Details
  • In-person in San Francisco
  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity
  • Free meals in office
  • Healthcare, 401(k), 15 days of PTO per year
  • Relocation assistance
  • Small, ambitious team
  • This is an in-person role in San Francisco. We're a tight-knit founding team and we play to win. Join us if you like to win too.
  • Experience: Any (new grads ok)
  • Visa: US citizen/visa only

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Relocation offered

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About the company

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  • Industry: AI

Office in San Francisco, United States

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  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 3 h agoModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it3

  • Posted 5 weeks ago, older than 89% of the open roles we trackModerate evidence
  • None of the company's 4 open roles was posted in the last 2 weeksModerate evidence
  • Very wide salary range: $200K to $500KSlight evidence

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  • Open for 5 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence
  • Entry level: the most applied-to level there isModerate evidence
  • Offers relocation: people from other countries apply tooSlight evidence
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  • Pays more than 99% of similar roles: that draws applicantsSlight evidence

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  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
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Details14 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment, Company
Tech stack
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • LLMs
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Industry
AI
Specialty
Data Science
Region
United States
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Role

Category
Data & Analytics
Specialty
Data Science
Experience
1+ years
Tech stack
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
  • LLMs

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Relocation
Offered
Visa sponsorship
Not sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$200,000 - 500,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

Company

Industry
AI

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