Drimva

Thinking Machines Lab

Research, Post-Training Evals

$350K–$475K

San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026

Education
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding.
Visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship is available; success is not guaranteed for every candidate or role.

About the job

Develops reliable model evaluations and research signals to assess capabilities, usability, and nuanced behaviors, and improve post-training.

What you'll do

  • Create evaluations and research signals for model capabilities and behaviors; assess usefulness in research and product workflows.
  • Improve evaluation robustness and develop benchmark auditing methodologies.
  • Build agentic evaluation environments and user simulators, and evaluate preferences, personalization, biases, and values.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a listed or related discipline, with strong theoretical and empirical grounding.
  • Experience designing, building, or analyzing evaluations, benchmarks, datasets, graders, or other measurement systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication and ability to collaborate across research and engineering teams.

Nice to have

  • Experience with LLMs, post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic systems, evaluation auditing, human evaluations, LLM-judges, or open-ended task evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Python and familiarity with a deep learning framework; experience with evaluation methods, research signals, or nuanced model behaviors.

Pay

$350,000 - $475,000 USD annual salary (base salary)

Tools

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX

AI focus

Develops and audits evaluations for model capabilities, behaviors, usability, and post-training; includes specialized agentic evaluation environments and user simulators.

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)