Abundant
Research Fellow
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
About the job
Conduct a 12-week research fellowship developing and deploying ideas that advance model reasoning and intelligence, with research submitted to a major conference for review.
What you'll do
- Lead a research agenda from idea through production deployment, including high-stakes evaluation and benchmarking.
- Develop datasets and reward signals for alignment and safety in collaboration with AI research teams.
- Identify research problems and work with engineering teams on data pipelines, tooling, and deep learning implementations.
What they ask for
- Research expertise in a related field such as CS, ML, or NLP; conference publication is described as ideal.
- Proven 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.
- Experience advising on or shaping governmental policy related to AI safety and governance is required.
Nice to have
- Research published at a major conference such as NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR.
Pay
$7500/month (base salary)
Tools
CS, ML, NLP, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR
AI focus
Foundational research on model reasoning and intelligence, alignment and safety, reward signals, and scaling data for advanced AI systems.
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