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Applied AI Researcher, Post-Training

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2025-10-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Adapting foundation models to real-world performance and alignment requirements for enterprise systems.

Role type

Applied AI Researcher (Post-Training)

Builds

Intelligent systems using models, agentic collaboration, and compound AI systems for enterprise clients.

Domain

Enterprise AI, Large Language Models, Post-Training

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization (DPO, RLHF, RLAIF), LoRA/PEFT, instruction-tuning, data curation, reward modeling, continual pretraining, compound AI systems, agentic collaboration, ensembling, ReAct, graph-of-thoughts

Preferred skills

experience building prototypes, using AI tools daily (ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity), strong programming and data analysis skills

Technologies

LLMs, SLMs, DPO, RLHF, RLAIF, LoRA, PEFT

Responsibilities

Develop and evaluate techniques to align models with enterprise systems; investigate methods for aligning large models with human and system-level objectives; explore trade-offs between generalization and specialization, data efficiency and robustness, capability and controllability.

Seniority

Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC

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