Position: Staff Research Engineer Frontier AI, RL & EvaluationType: Contractor AssignmentCompensation: $35/hr
Location: RemoteCommitment: 40 hours/week, with at least 4 hours overlap during PST business hoursRole ResponsibilitiesConduct research on frontier AI systems, including synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and AI evaluation.Design rigorous experiments and build research-grade datasets, prototypes, tooling, and evaluation frameworks.Train, test, and evaluate AI/ML models, analyze experimental results, and establish practices for rigor, reproducibility, and data quality.Translate research findings into practical improvements for AI systems and collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams.Requirements7+ years of significant research engineering experience working on machine learning or frontier AI systems, with a Master s or PhD in AI, ML, Computer Science, or a closely related technical field.Strong foundations in machine learning with practical experience designing experiments, training models, evaluating models, or developing AI systems.Demonstrated research experience in reinforcement learning, post-training, AI evaluation, benchmarks, synthetic/agentic data generation, model understanding, or AI agents.Strong Python programming skills and experience with modern AI/ML frameworks and research tooling.Application ProcessApply via Easy Apply.Check your email for next steps.