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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