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Research Engineer, Intern – Benchmarking

San FranciscoInternship2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10
On-site

Core

Design, implement, and maintain benchmarks and metrics for tool use, agentic behavior, and real-world reasoning; build and operate LLM evaluation systems end-to-end; run systematic failure analysis on model outputs to inform training and data pipelines.

Role type

Research Engineer (AI Evaluation & Benchmarking)

Builds

Benchmarking pipelines, evaluation systems, failure analysis workflows, rubrics, and automated evaluators

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Large Language Models / Model Evaluation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Applied research, model evaluation, benchmarking, failure analysis, coding, ML models, data structures, algorithms, backend systems, APIs, SQL/NoSQL, cloud platforms

Preferred skills

Post-training or evaluation/benchmarking team experience, top-tier publications (NeurIPS, ICML, ACL), LLM evaluation pipelines, synthetic data generation, rubric design, RL-style workflows

Technologies

LLMs, APIs, SQL, NoSQL, Cloud platforms

Responsibilities

Design and maintain benchmarks for tool use and agentic behavior; Build and operate LLM evaluation systems; Run systematic failure analysis on model outputs; Create and refine rubrics and automated evaluators; Quantify data usability and quality; Collaborate with AI researchers and data producers

Seniority

Intern