Research Scientist - Post Training

AfterQuery•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

AfterQuery builds the training data and evaluation infrastructure that frontier AI labs use to make their models better. We work with the world's leading labs to design high signal datasets and run rigorous evaluations that go beyond static benchmarks. We are a small, early team (post Series A) where individual contributors have a direct impact on how the next generation of models learn and improve.

Requirements

Strong familiarity with LLM training and evaluation methodologies.
Genuine obsession with how data structure, selection, and quality drive model behavior.
Ability to design lightweight experiments, move fast, and extract actionable insights from messy results.
Comfort working across domains (you'll touch finance, software engineering, policy, and more).
A bias toward building over theorizing.

Nice To Haves

Great candidates are undergrad research or master's research (but haven't done a phd).

Responsibilities

Run controlled SFT and RL experiments to measure the impact of our datasets on model performance.
Help build public evals and new data types that push the frontier.
Publish external-facing research, blog posts, and technical reports.
Work with internal SPLs to iterate on data quality based on your results.