Drimva

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Senior Research Engineer, Frontier Data

$250K–$350K

United States +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026

Location
United States
Palo Alto, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
Education
PhD or Master’s degree in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, or a closely related technical field; exceptional equivalent research experience will also be considered.

About the job

Research and engineer datasets, reinforcement-learning environments, experiments, and evaluation systems to understand and improve frontier AI models and turn findings into practical products.

What you'll do

  • Investigate frontier AI capabilities and develop research approaches in data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.
  • Build and evaluate research datasets, prototypes, tools, experiments, and frameworks; train and test models and interpret results rigorously.
  • Collaborate across teams to apply research findings to scalable products and communicate or share findings with the research community.

What they ask for

  • PhD or Master’s degree in AI, machine learning, computer science, or a closely related technical field; exceptional equivalent research experience considered.
  • Strong machine-learning foundation and practical experience designing experiments, training or evaluating models, and using modern AI tooling.
  • Demonstrated research experience in synthetic or agentic data generation, reinforcement learning or post-training, AI understanding, evaluation, or benchmarks.
  • Strong programming skills and sound judgment about rigor, data quality, reproducibility, and evidence-based decisions.

Nice to have

Pay

$250,000 to $350,000 OTE + Equity

AI focus

Frontier AI research and engineering, including synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.

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