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Member of Technical Staff, Evals
$200K–$350K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Remote (USA)
New York, NY
Mountain View, CA - Education
- PhD in ML/AI, computer science, data science, or related fields (or equivalent research experience in industry).
About the job
Builds evaluation systems, benchmarks, feedback methods, and data-quality tools to measure and improve frontier AI models and agents.
What you'll do
- Design evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for LLMs, agents, multimodal models, and reinforcement-learning environments.
- Develop reward models, verifiers, graders, and human-data quality systems; research reliability and resistance to reward hacking.
- Run evaluation and research iterations, and contribute benchmarks, software, research, and technical writing publicly.
What they ask for
- PhD in ML/AI, computer science, data science, or a related field, or equivalent research experience in industry.
- Publications at top AI/ML venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or COLM.
- Strong Python skills; experience building scalable software and working with agents.
- Strong knowledge of frontier AI, including benchmarks, evaluation techniques, agent harnesses, post-training recipes, and data shapes.
Nice to have
- Strong GitHub profile or open-source contributions, or a product portfolio.
- Comfort operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment with substantial ownership.
Pay
USD $200K – $350K base salary
Tools
Python, LLMs
AI focus
Develops evaluations, benchmarks, reward and verifier systems, agent-evaluation methods, and data-quality techniques for frontier AI.
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