CareerPlan

Research Engineer Intern - Environments, Data and Post-Training

San FranciscoInternship2026-10-27 → 2026-10-28
On-site

Core

Build scalable systems for post-training, RLVR, and synthetic data generation to improve frontier language models' tool use and reasoning.

Role type

Research Engineer (Post-Training & Evaluation)

Builds

Post-training pipelines, reward-shaping experiments, data augmentation systems, and LLM evaluation benchmarks.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Applied AI research, post-training workflows, RLVR, machine learning model development, data structures, algorithms, backend systems, API integration, SQL/NoSQL, cloud platforms, experimental design, rubric creation.

Preferred skills

Industry post-training experience, top-tier conference publications, synthetic data generation, RL-style workflows.

Technologies

GRPO, DAPO, LLMs, Cloud platforms, SQL/NoSQL

Responsibilities

Design and run reward-shaping experiments; build data generation and augmentation pipelines; create and refine rubrics and evaluators; operate LLM evaluation systems and benchmarks; quantify data usability and performance uplift.

Seniority

Intern