Research Scientist

Idler•San Francisco, CA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Research Scientist at idler, you'll own measuring and improving how models learn from our tasks. You'll draw on your own experience and collaborate with frontier researchers to validate our data quality, identify where improvements are needed, and create new datasets. To succeed, you'll need to have extensive experience doing this work in production at a frontier lab.

Requirements

1+ years of experience doing RL in production at a frontier lab
Track record of post-training an LLM end to end
Desire to drive the research roadmap and implementation on a fast-moving team
Deep curiosity about how machines learn from data and how to extract the maximum learning signal from our tasks

Responsibilities

Work with our customers — researchers at frontier labs — to design novel post-training recipes and data quality measurement techniques
Design and run our in-house post-training stack to measure model lift on our tasks
Develop new data products based on datasets and experts available to us
Work with procurement to ensure external data we acquire is suitable for refinement
Create scaleable systems for ingesting & evaluating data we are considering buying