hillclimb
Member of Technical Staff - Research
San Francisco · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
About the job
Design and validate research environments and evaluations that measure and improve frontier models’ research capabilities, and run post-training experiments.
What you'll do
- Turn ML research problems into environments that reward meaningful progress and sound research judgment.
- Test whether environment rewards are repeatable and track the quality of scored work; build systems to create and validate environments at scale.
- Run post-training experiments to identify trainable environments.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLMs, RL, RLHF/RLAIF, RLVR, post-training, evaluations, graders, synthetic data, model training, or coding agents at a frontier/data lab.
- Understanding trustworthy reward evaluation and model reward exploitation; experience designing automated environment-building and quality-checking systems.
Tools
ML, LLMs, RL, RLHF/RLAIF, RLVR
AI focus
Build research environments and evaluations to improve agent capabilities and test whether frontier models can ideate, experiment, and produce impactful research.
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