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Research Operations, Code

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and operate end-to-end data programs that generate high-quality code and reasoning data to train frontier AI models for leading labs.

Role type

Senior Research Operations Engineer (Data Strategy & Pipeline Design)

Builds

Multi-million dollar data programs, human-expert workflows, synthetic generation pipelines, and model-in-the-loop systems for AI labs.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Data Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Technical judgment in coding and ML, operational ownership of complex projects, communication with technical researchers, pipeline design, task design, quality assurance, team management

Preferred skills

Pipeline building with LLMs/agents, research fluency in model benchmarks, experience in consulting or high-growth startups

Technologies

LLMs, agents, synthetic data generation, model-in-the-loop systems, benchmarking frameworks

Responsibilities

Decompose frontier model capabilities to identify capability gaps and design targeted data; Design data production pipelines (human-expert, synthetic, hybrid); Manage end-to-end delivery of data programs; Act as primary contact for AI lab researchers; Design human-expert labeling and evaluation flows; Source, vet, and manage teams of domain experts

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with operational ownership

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