Staff AI Research Lead - Benchmarks & Post-Training

Halluminates; San Francisco (CA); Vor Ort; USD 250.000 - 320.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Healthcare

Relocation stipend

401(k) match

Food

Gym membership

Transport

Visa sponsorship

Zusammenfassung

Halluminate is a data research lab focused on building benchmarks and RL environments to advance AI in knowledge work. We are headquartered in San Francisco, offering a substantial base salary and equity for a senior researcher leading post-training efforts.

The role is to lead in-house research, post-training activities, and public benchmarks while publishing findings and shaping the platform with strong product ownership and client-facing skills. U.S. relocation support is included.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in model post-training.
• Experience publishing papers and sharing open research.
• Familiarity building evaluations, benchmarks, or RL for AI agents.
• Startup speed: iterate quick, ask quick, respond quick.
• Strong product and user ownership.
• Client-facing comfort — you'll talk to users, customers, and SMEs.

Aufgaben

• Train open-source frontier models on our in-house environments to validate quality and build research insights.
• Lead our public-facing benchmark and leaderboard efforts for frontier models.
• Publish findings in blogs and papers to share with the broader research community.
• Contribute to core platform engineering as needed — AI tooling, data collection pipelines, partnering with environment and reward designers.
• Build our engineering team culture from the ground up.

Kenntnisse

Post-training ML experience

Research publication experience

Benchmark/RL evaluation experience

Startup pace

Product ownership

Client-facing

Jobbeschreibung

Halluminate is a data research lab focused on building benchmarks and RL environments to advance AI in knowledge work. We are headquartered in San Francisco, offering a substantial base salary and equity for a senior researcher leading post-training efforts.

The role is to lead in-house research, post-training activities, and public benchmarks while publishing findings and shaping the platform with strong product ownership and client-facing skills. U.S. relocation support is included.