CareerPlan

ML Research Scientist, Scientific Evaluations

Alewife, Cambridge, MAFull-time$176k–$304k2026-11-10 → 2026-11-11
Based in United States

Core

Design and prototype new evaluations and environments for science to evaluate frontier LLMs and turn scientific workflows into training signals.

Role type

ML Research Scientist (Scientific Evaluations)

Builds

High-quality scientific evaluations, RL environments, and end-to-end pipelines for synthetic environment generation.

Domain

AI for Science (Biology, Chemistry, Material Sciences)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML/computation in biology/chemistry/material sciences, environment/evaluation design for model training, large complex data pipelines, Python prototyping, software engineering fundamentals

Preferred skills

LLM training experience, publications at NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR, distributed compute (Ray, Modal), LLM inference systems (vLLM), async Python, workflow orchestration (Flyte, Airflow)

Technologies

Python, Ray, Modal, vLLM, Flyte, Airflow

Responsibilities

Design and prototype new evals and environments for science; Invent new types of RL environments; Build end-to-end pipelines for synthetic environment generation; Prototype and validate environment designs

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC