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Research Scientist

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $250,000–$250,000🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design datasets, evaluations, and RL environments to address gaps in frontier vision-language, multi-modal, robotics, and coding models; run failure analyses on partner labs' models; own research behind new benchmarks; and validate data quality empirically.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (Applied AI/Benchmarks)

Builds

Open models (RF-DETR), enterprise-grade benchmarks (RF100-VL), and training data for frontier labs

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Multi-modal Learning, Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models | research | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

PhD or equivalent in computer vision/multi-modal learning/ML, post-training expertise (fine-tuning, RL, evaluation design), strong engineering fundamentals for experiment code, empirical data validation, benchmark design

Preferred skills

Frontier lab experience, vision-language model expertise, robotics learning, agentic coding evaluations

Technologies

RF-DETR, RF100-VL, RL environments

Responsibilities

Design datasets and RL environments targeting measurable gaps in frontier models; run structured failure analyses on partner labs' models; own research behind new benchmarks; validate data quality through fine-tuning and ablation; contribute to open models; collaborate with frontier lab researchers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with research leadership

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