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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