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Member of Technical Staff, Research (Intern)
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Internship · Posted Sep 9, 2026
About the job
Conduct frontier research on model reasoning and intelligence, develop alignment-focused datasets and benchmarks, and take research from development through deployment in live systems.
What you'll do
- Lead and execute research on model reasoning and intelligence, including the research-to-production lifecycle.
- Design and iterate on datasets, benchmarks, alignment, safety, and reward signals with AI research teams.
- Select and manage research projects, and collaborate on data pipelines, tooling, and deep learning implementations.
What they ask for
- Research expertise in a related field such as CS, ML, or NLP; major-conference publication is described as ideal.
- Experience shipping research to production and live systems, especially in post-training, distillation, and high-stakes evaluation.
- Experience with large-scale agent systems, including orchestration frameworks, tool APIs, distributed execution, observability, and logging infrastructure.
- Experience advising on or shaping governmental policy related to AI safety and governance is required.
Nice to have
- Publication at a major conference such as NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR.
Pay
$10,000/month (base salary)
Tools
NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
AI focus
Frontier research on model reasoning and intelligence; model alignment, safety, reward signals, post-training, distillation, and large-scale agent systems.
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