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Research Engineers, Post-Training

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-07-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and run post-training workflows to improve the behavior, reliability, and usefulness of AI systems in production environments.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (Post-Training)

Builds

Production-ready AI systems, evaluation frameworks, and experimentation infrastructure for enterprise customers.

Domain

Applied AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Enterprise Operations

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

fine-tuning, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, reward modeling, synthetic data generation, evaluation suite design, pipeline development, controlled experimentation, behavioral analysis, infrastructure building

Preferred skills

AI-native working style, bias towards measurement, ownership mentality, applied constraints management

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, vector databases, cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Responsibilities

Design and run post-training workflows; Develop datasets, preference signals, and evaluation suites; Investigate post-training techniques across enterprise workflows; Build infrastructure for experimentation and regression testing; Partner with researchers and engineers to apply techniques; Analyze model outputs and production traces to identify improvements; Create repeatable processes for adapting AI systems to customer domains.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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