AfterQuery
Research Scholar
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Education
- Full-time undergraduate/master/PhD student; established publication record required.
About the job
Collaborate with an AfterQuery research mentor on a focused, publishable project in an AI research area, producing reproducible research and co-authoring a paper.
What you'll do
- Define and execute a research project; formulate questions, design experiments, and analyze results.
- Develop project datasets, methods, evaluations, or benchmark assets, and document the work for reproducibility.
- Co-author a paper and work toward publication.
What they ask for
- Be a full-time undergraduate, master’s, or PhD student with an established publication record.
- Be able to participate in an ongoing research collaboration throughout the academic semester.
Nice to have
- Research publications at leading conferences or peer-reviewed journals.
- Experience developing, publishing, or contributing to public benchmarks.
Pay
$1K – $10K (cash award once; posting does not state a currency code or whether this is base salary or total pay)
AI focus
Research on data quality and data mix; post-training, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning; agent and foundation-model evaluation; or public benchmarks in coding and specialized domains.
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