Drimva

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