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Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training
$200K–$350K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
Remote (USA)
New York, NY
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 3+ years in post-training, fine-tuning, or model-evaluation work.
About the job
Build and productize post-training systems, experiments, evaluations, data pipelines, and platforms that improve frontier AI models.
What you'll do
- Design post-training methods and systems, including fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, preference optimization, and reward modeling.
- Turn research and partner needs into experiments, evaluation frameworks, pipelines, and production-quality implementations.
- Identify repeatable solutions and productize them into reusable software and platforms.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of demonstrated strength in post-training, fine-tuning, or model-evaluation work.
- Strong Python skills and ability to write clean, efficient, scalable software.
- Hands-on experience with modern ML tooling, particularly PyTorch, and large-scale data, training, or evaluation workflows.
- Experimental judgment and experience designing systems, including tradeoffs among quality, scale, reliability, and reuse.
Nice to have
- Experience building large-scale ML systems, LLM/agent benchmarks, evaluation methodologies, annotation systems, or data-quality frameworks.
- Research, open-source contributions, technical leadership, or experience productizing research into reusable platforms.
Pay
$200K – $350K USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, RL, SFT, LoRA/PEFT, RLHF, DPO, PPO
AI focus
Develop and evaluate post-training methods and systems for frontier models, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, preference optimization, reward modeling, and human-feedback and evaluation workflows.
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