Halluminate
AI & Machine LearningDirect Ashby career site

Member of Technical Staff - Research / Post-Training

Pay
$250,000 – $320,000 per year
Location
San Francisco, CA · On-site
Job type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Staff
Listed
23 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • model post-training
  • benchmark and evaluation design
  • RL for AI agents

Also useful

  • paper publication
  • open-source frontier models

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k match
  • Gym

The Role

Base: $250-320k * Equity: 0.20-0.35% * Location: San Francisco, in-person

Lead our in-house research and post-training efforts.

Responsibilities

  • Train open-source frontier models on our in-house environments to validate quality and build research insights.
  • Lead our public-facing benchmark and leaderboard efforts for frontier models.
  • Publish findings in blogs and papers to share with the broader research community.
  • Contribute to core platform engineering as needed - AI tooling, data collection pipelines, partnering with environment and reward designers.
  • Build our engineering team culture from the ground up.

You Should Have

  • Experience in model post-training.
  • Experience publishing papers and sharing open research.
  • Familiarity building evaluations, benchmarks, or RL for AI agents.
  • Startup speed: iterate quick, ask quick, respond quick.
  • Strong product and user ownership.
  • Client-facing comfort - you'll talk to users, customers, and SMEs.

Nice to Have

  • Former founders or experience at early-stage startups.

What We Offer

  • Healthcare - Fully covered medical, dental, and vision for you. Subsidized for dependents.
  • Relocation - $10k+ relocation stipend to help you get to San Francisco.
  • 401(k) - Up to 4% employer match.
  • Food - Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner while working.
  • Health - Free gym membership.
  • Transportation - Free Ubers and Waymo rides to and from the office.
  • Visa sponsorship - We sponsor visas, including H-1B.

About Halluminate

Halluminate is a data research lab building benchmarks and RL environments to push the frontier of AI in knowledge work.

Our first area of focus is economically valuable workflows in financial services and consulting, but we are rapidly expanding into adjacent verticals.

Read the original posting

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