Forward Deployed Researcher
Core
Technical research partner serving AI labs and enterprise customers on evaluation, data collection, and alignment projects.
Role type
Senior IC applied AI/ML researcher (customer-facing)
Builds
Bespoke evaluation methodologies, rubrics, data collection frameworks, verifiers, validation frameworks, and RL environments
Domain
AI/ML research, human-in-the-loop systems, LLM evaluation
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | client delivery
Required skills
LLM evaluation methodologies, data collection design, human feedback approaches, AI-assisted workflows, prototyping, tooling development
Preferred skills
Customer-facing experience, consulting experience
Technologies
LLMs, RL environments, custom tooling
Responsibilities
Advise and prototype bespoke solutions for customer engagements, own methodology from scoping to delivery, build trusted relationships with customer research/engineering teams, surface patterns for platform capabilities, collaborate with product teams to translate insights, mentor team members on advanced AI concepts
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with customer-facing responsibilities
