AI Evals Researcher, Commercial Team: Model Behavior, Evals & Post-Training | San Francisco Bay Area (On-site) | $250K + Equity

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself." Richard Feynman

AI Evals Researcher, Commercial Team | San Francisco Bay Area (On-site) | $250K + Equity

Our client is an AI data company whose customers are the frontier labs. The people buying are researchers, and they would rather talk to another researcher than to a salesperson. That conversation is this job.

WHAT YOU WOULD DO

Form sharp views on what makes a model good or bad for a given user, then turn them into proposals, analyses and briefing material that lab researchers want to read. You start alongside the commercial team and move in front of the labs over time.

YOU WILL NEED

• Time at a frontier or neo lab, or at an AI evals or data company

• Hands-on model behavior or interpretability work: post-training, evals or answer quality

• A year or more of that work. Less is fine if it was model behavior at a frontier lab

• Clear writing, and the confidence to present it live to a room

• Firm, specific opinions on what good model behavior looks like

• Five days a week, Monday to Friday, in the San Francisco office

HELPFUL

• Work on benchmarks, datasets, evaluation projects or expert annotator pools

• A technical degree in computer science, machine learning, statistics, economics or similar, or the hands-on equivalent

LESS LIKELY TO FIT

Product-facing backgrounds with no hands-on model work.

THE DETAILS

$250K base plus equity. On-site in San Francisco with relocation support. Existing US work authorization is strongly preferred.

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