Research Scientist - Human-AI Systems

Snorkel AI; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Snorkel AI seeks a Research Scientist in the United States to advance how high-quality data and environments for AI agents are created. You will build and optimize pipelines that combine real-world data, automated generation, and human expert input to scale frontier model performance.

Collaborating with domain experts, customers, and product and engineering teams, you’ll translate research into reusable, scalable systems and contribute to Snorkel’s data-centric AI roadmap.

Qualifications

• Strong research background in AI, ML, NLP, or related fields.
• Experience designing and evaluating new methods for AI.
• Ability to translate research into scalable production workflows.
• Experience collaborating with domain experts and customers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize reusable pipelines that combine AI capabilities with expert judgment to accelerate data and agentic environment creation.
• Design and run rigorous experiments to validate approaches and measure impact on data quality and model performance.
• Partner with engineering, data operations, domain experts, and customers to turn research prototypes into production workflows.
• Work with domain experts to design and test workflows to author, review, and refine data and environments.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to surface research findings that inform the company roadmap.
• Stay at the frontier of research in data and agentic environments and bring best practices into Snorkel’s workflows.
• Represent Snorkel’s research externally through publications, blog posts, talks, and customer engagements.

Skills

Research AI

ML/NLP

Experimental design

Collaboration

Software engineering

Publication/communication

Education

PhD in ML/NLP

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Reinforcement learning

Job description

About Snorkel

At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data.

We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before.

We’re looking for a Research Scientist to advance how high-quality data and environments for AI agents are created. You’ll build and optimize pipelines that combine real-world data, automated generation, and human expert input. Working with domain experts, academic partners, customers, and our product and engineering teams, you’ll scale these pipelines to target frontier model performance gaps and expand data and environment diversity. Your work will amplify human knowledge and judgement, enabling experts to create and refine data and agentic environments that strengthens Snorkel’s position as the frontier data lab.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to advance frontier AI through data and environment creation and enjoys turning research into reusable, scalable systems.

Location: San Francisco, New York, OR REMOTE

Main Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize reusable pipelines that combine AI capabilities with expert judgment to accelerate data and agentic environment creation.
• Design and run rigorous experiments to validate proof-of-concept approaches, measure their impact on data quality, pipeline efficiency, and model performance, and communicate findings.
• Partner with engineering, data operation, domain experts, and customers to turn research prototypes into reliable production workflows.
• Work directly with domain experts to design and test workflows that help them author, review, and refine data and environments.
• Work cross-functionally with data operations, product, and engineering to surface research findings that inform the company roadmap.
• Stay at the frontier of research in data and agentic environment creation and bring best practices into Snorkel’s workflows.
• Represent Snorkel’s research externally through publications, blog posts, conference talks, and customer engagements that advance the conversation around data-centric AI.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong research background in AI, machine learning, NLP, LLMs, or related fields, with experience developing and evaluating new methods.
• Experience building environments for AI agents in automated research, computer use, coding, or professional domain workflows.
• Experience with one or more of synthetic data generation, human in the loop workflows, reinforcement learning, agent environments, or model evaluation.
• Strong experimental design skills, including defining hypotheses and conducting ablations.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g., clean coding, modular design, version control).
• Ability to collaborate with domain experts and translate their knowledge into concrete tasks, evaluation criteria, and repeatable workflows.
• Comfort with rapid iteration, ambiguous research questions, and moving ideas from experimentation into production.
• Ph.D. in machine learning, NLP, or a related field preferred; equivalent industry or research lab experience considered.

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role

$200,000—$375,000 USD

Be Your Best at Snorkel

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.