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Senior Research Engineer, SWE
$250K–$350K
United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 10, 2025
- Location
- United States
San Francisco, California, 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
Researches frontier AI systems and builds datasets, experiments, prototypes, and evaluation tools to improve AI models and translate findings into scalable applications.
What you'll do
- Investigate frontier AI capabilities and develop research approaches in areas such as data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, and evaluation.
- Build, train, test, and evaluate research systems while ensuring rigor, data quality, and reproducibility.
- Collaborate across teams to apply research findings, communicate results, and contribute to research community activities.
What they ask for
- Strong foundation in machine learning 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 ability to implement, test, and iterate in a research environment.
- Sound judgment on experimental rigor, data quality, reproducibility, and evidence-based decision-making.
Pay
$250,000 to $350,000 USD total pay (OTE)
AI focus
Research and development for frontier AI systems, including synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and evaluation.
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