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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