Drimva

AfterQuery

Research Fellow

San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026

Experience
Significant research experience; no specific number of years stated.
Education
No required education stated.

About the job

Conduct a mentored, full-time research project advancing frontier AI, with the aim of producing a joint publication or public benchmark.

What you'll do

  • Define and execute a research project; formulate questions, design experiments, and analyze results.
  • Develop needed datasets, methods, evaluations, or benchmark assets, and document the work for reproducibility.
  • Collaborate with research and engineering teams and co-author a paper toward publication.

What they ask for

  • Significant academic, clinical, legal, or industry research experience.
  • Strong technical communication and scientific writing skills, with a record of research or publication and ability to deliver rigorous, reproducible results.
  • Passion for advancing frontier AI and some understanding of model evaluation.
  • Availability to work full time in San Francisco for 12–16 weeks.

Nice to have

  • Publications at leading conferences or in peer-reviewed journals; PhD, MD, JD, equivalent advanced degree, or late-stage PhD candidate.
  • Deep expertise in a specialized field such as medicine, finance, law, or STEM.

Pay

$16K per month (pay type not stated)

AI focus

Research on data quality and composition, post-training (including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning), agent and foundation-model evaluation, and public benchmarks in coding and specialized domains.

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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)