Staff Research Engineer, Frontier AI Evaluation Benchmarks

OpenTrain AI, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 193,000; Part time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI, Inc. seeks a Staff Research Engineer (part-time contractor, ~20 hours/week) to investigate capabilities, limits, and training methods of advanced AI systems.

You’ll blend research with engineering to translate findings into practical AI applications, working across datasets, RL environments, evaluation, synthetic data, and model understanding. You will collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams, publish findings, mentor, and participate in peer

Qualifications

• PhD or master's in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, or closely related field, or equivalent research experience.
• At least 7 years of professional experience including substantial research engineering work in ML or frontier AI systems.
• Strong Python programming and experience with modern ML frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Formulate research questions and design experiments to produce evidence-based conclusions.
• Build datasets, prototypes, tools, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks for complex multi-step workflows.
• Train, test, and evaluate models with ML tools, then analyze results.

Skills

Python

Experiment design

Communication

Independent work

Mentoring

Education

PhD in AI/ML/CS

Master's in AI/ML/CS

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

OpenTrain AI, Inc. seeks a Staff Research Engineer (part-time contractor, ~20 hours/week) to investigate capabilities, limits, and training methods of advanced AI systems.

You’ll blend research with engineering to translate findings into practical AI applications, working across datasets, RL environments, evaluation, synthetic data, and model understanding. You will collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations teams, publish findings, mentor, and participate in peer