AI Tutor Research Scientist — Evaluation & Simulation

Heyaristotle; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Heyaristotle in San Francisco is looking for a talented researcher to work on improving AI tutoring systems. You will shape experiments, evaluate tutoring quality, and turn pedagogical principles into actionable measures.

The role starts as a summer contract with potential for continuation. Ideal candidates have a PhD or equivalent experience in CS, ML, or related fields. Responsibilities include planning research projects and building simulated student models.

Qualifications

• Graduate research experience in CS, ML, NLP, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with LLM evaluation, post-training or fine-tuning.
• Familiarity with education research is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Scope and plan research projects with the team.
• Design and validate measures of multi-turn tutoring quality.
• Build simulated students grounded in real student data.

Skills

LLM evaluation

agent systems

dataset curation

Education

Graduate research experience (PhD student, recent PhD)

Job description

Heyaristotle in San Francisco is looking for a talented researcher to work on improving AI tutoring systems. You will shape experiments, evaluate tutoring quality, and turn pedagogical principles into actionable measures.

The role starts as a summer contract with potential for continuation. Ideal candidates have a PhD or equivalent experience in CS, ML, or related fields. Responsibilities include planning research projects and building simulated student models.