Snorkel AI
Director, Research - Evaluation & Training
$275K–$425K
New York City, NY (Hybrid) +5 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Jun 11, 2026
- Location
- New York City, NY (Hybrid)
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
United States (Remote)
New York, New York, United States
Palo Alto, California, United States
San Francisco - Experience
- 7+ years in applied AI, ML, or research roles, with 4+ years managing technical teams.
About the job
Leads a research team developing evaluation, error-analysis, and data-valuation methods to identify model capability gaps and demonstrate how Snorkel data improves model performance.
What you'll do
- Own a multi-quarter roadmap for evaluation, error analysis, and data valuation.
- Use model failures and benchmarks to recommend datasets and inform Snorkel’s data strategy.
- Lead and grow researchers, and communicate findings to Product, GTM, and customers.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in applied AI, ML, or research roles.
- 4+ years managing technical teams.
- Technical depth in LLM evaluation, benchmarking, and model behavior analysis.
- Strong communication skills to make technical results clear and persuasive to non-research audiences.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with data valuation or data attribution research.
- Experience with frontier labs, public benchmarks, or commercial AI data/eval products.
Pay
$275,000 — $425,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
LLM
AI focus
Leads research into AI model evaluation, failure analysis, capability gaps, benchmarks, and data valuation to guide data development and demonstrate performance improvements.
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