CareerPlan

Research Scientist - Environments, Data and Post-Training

San FranciscoFull-time$250k–$500k2026-11-08
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Develop novel post-training methods, training recipes, and evaluation systems to improve frontier AI model reasoning, tool use, and agentic behavior.

Role type

Senior IC research scientist (post-training & RL)

Builds

Scalable post-training pipelines, RLVR systems, benchmarks, and evaluation rubrics for frontier models

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Post-training methods, Reinforcement Learning, Language-model evaluation, Data-centric ML, Experimental design, Python programming, Distributed systems

Preferred skills

Industry post-training experience, Top-tier conference publications, Synthetic-data generation, Large-scale evaluation infrastructure, Cloud infrastructure

Technologies

GRPO, DAPO, RLVR, Open-source tools

Responsibilities

Implement novel post-training methods, Design and run experiments across datasets and reward functions, Build scalable data generation and filtering pipelines, Develop rubrics and scoring systems for training decisions, Investigate model capabilities and failure modes, Contribute to open-source post-training tools

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC