Raydar
Research Scientist
$250K–$350K
New York, New York · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- About 5 or more years of research experience across academic and industry settings.
- Education
- PhD in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a quantitative discipline from a leading program. A master's degree with an outstanding body of published work may be considered in place of a PhD.
About the job
Leads applied research to evaluate and improve language models by developing benchmarks, investigating model weaknesses, and creating high-quality training and testing datasets.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain benchmarks, test suites, and dataset classification schemes.
- Investigate model weaknesses, develop datasets to address them, and publish findings.
- Shape the research roadmap and collaborate with domain specialists on data quality standards.
What they ask for
- PhD in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a quantitative discipline from a leading program.
- Strong publication record at top machine learning conferences, as a lead or near-lead author.
- Direct, full-cycle ownership of post-training work for large language models.
- Deep expertise in model assessment, benchmark creation, data quality, and quantitative research.
Nice to have
- A master's degree with an outstanding publication record may be considered instead of a PhD.
- Python and PyTorch experience for collaborating on evaluation tooling.
Pay
USD 250,000 to 350,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch
AI focus
Applied research on language model evaluation, post-training, and data quality, including identifying model weaknesses and developing datasets to improve them.
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