Drimva

Institute of Foundation Models

Research Scientist, Agentic Data & Benchmarking

$150K–$450K

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 8, 2026

Experience
2+ years; emphasis on evaluations and/or training-data curation for ML systems.
Education
BS, MS, or PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.

About the job

Own the agentic training-data pipeline and evaluation suite used to develop and rigorously measure AI agents.

What you'll do

  • Design reproducible evaluations and reliable evaluation harnesses for agentic capabilities; analyze results and diagnose anomalies.
  • Source, generate, curate, and quality-check trajectories, tool-use data, task datasets, RL environments, and reward signals.
  • Collaborate on research publications, benchmarks, and tooling, and translate capability goals into measurable data and evaluations.

What they ask for

  • 2+ years of experience emphasizing evaluations and/or training-data curation for ML systems.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch development experience.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and investigating evaluations or curating and generating training datasets.
  • Hands-on experience using LLM agents.

Nice to have

  • Experience with reinforcement learning, reward design, or RL environment construction for LLMs.
  • Background in statistics and experimental design.

Pay

$150,000 – $450,000/year USD base salary

Tools

Python, PyTorch, Ray

AI focus

Build and evaluate agentic language models, including agent data, tool use, RL environments, reward signals, and benchmarks.

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First seen Oct 29, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)