Part time-Research Assistant-Data Collection

AfterQuery; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

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Health Insurance

Job summary

AfterQuery in San Francisco invites experienced researchers to join its Research Fellow program for 12–16 weeks of full-time, paid research. Define and execute a project with a mentor, formulate research questions, design rigorous experiments, and develop datasets, methods, or benchmarks with reproducible results.

Applicants should have a PhD, MD, JD, or equivalent advanced degree and a strong publication record in relevant fields such as AI, medicine, finance, or STEM.

Qualifications

• PhD, MD, JD, or equivalent advanced degree in a relevant field.
• Strong record of research or publications in peer-reviewed venues.
• Clear technical communication and strong scientific writing skills.
• Availability to work full time in San Francisco for 12–16 weeks.
• Significant academic, clinical, legal, or industry research experience.
• Domain expertise in medicine, finance, law, STEM, or related fields.
• Research publications at leading conferences or peer-reviewed journals.
• Two or three links to representative research, code, or technical work.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a full-time project with an AfterQuery research mentor, aligned with interests and core research area.
• Formulate research questions, design rigorous experiments, and analyze results.
• Develop the datasets, methods, evaluations, or benchmark assets the project needs.
• Document methods and results clearly and work with AfterQuery's research and engineering teams to make the work reproducible.

Skills

Technical writing

Research experience

Publications

Domain expertise

Education

PhD/MD/JD or equivalent

Job description

About AfterQuery

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.

Founding Impact

You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.

Equity & Growth

Competitive salary and meaningful equity. Strong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.

Research Fellow Program

The AfterQuery Research Fellow program welcomes experienced researchers from AI and other disciplines who want to apply their expertise to frontier AI research and help push the boundaries of model capabilities. Fellows join us in our San Francisco office for 12 16 weeks of full-time, paid research.

Focus Areas

• Data quality and data composition
• Post-training, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning
• Agent and foundation-model evaluation
• Public benchmarks in coding and specialized domains such as medicine, finance, law, and STEM

Define and execute a full-time project with an AfterQuery research mentor, aligned with your interests and at least one core research area.

Formulate research questions, design rigorous experiments, and analyze the results.

Develop the datasets, methods, evaluations, or benchmark assets the project needs.

Document methods and results clearly and work with AfterQuery's research and engineering teams to make the work reproducible.

Significant academic, clinical, legal, or industry research experience.

A PhD, MD, JD, or equivalent advanced degree in a relevant field.

Clear technical communication and strong scientific writing skills.

A strong record of research or publication and demonstrated ability to take a project from initial scoping to rigorous, reproducible results.

Availability to work full time in San Francisco for 12 16 weeks.

Research publications at leading conferences or peer-reviewed journals.

Domain expertise in medicine, finance, law, STEM, or another relevant specialized field.

Application Materials

Two or three links to representative research, code, or technical work.

A 1 2-page response to the Research Proposal Prompt below, including one or two example tasks (references and an optional appendix excluded).

Health Insurance

Medical, Vision, Dental

~Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law.