5h ago
Research Engineer - Environments, Data and Post-Training
San Francisco
$130k-$500k / year
full-timeai-ml
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll work at the intersection of engineering and applied AI research, contributing to post-training, synthetic data generation, and large-scale evaluation for frontier language models. Your work will directly impact how LLMs master tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning. You'll build scalable systems and run experiments that push the boundaries of model performance.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Work on post-training and RLVR pipelines to improve model performance.
- Design and run reward-shaping experiments and algorithmic improvements.
- Build and maintain data generation and augmentation pipelines.
- Create and refine rubrics, evaluators, and scoring frameworks.
- Build and operate LLM evaluation systems at scale.
📋 Requirements
- Strong applied research background in post-training or model evaluation.
- Strong coding proficiency with machine learning models.
- Hands-on experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Familiarity with APIs, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms.
✨ Nice to Have
- Real-world post-training team experience in industry.
- Publications at NeurIPS, ICML, or ACL.
- Experience in synthetic data generation or RL-style workflows.
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 📈 Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- 🏠 $10K housing bonus if you live within 0.5 miles of office
- 🍽️ $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- 💪 Free Equinox membership
- 🩺 Health insurance
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