Your impact

reputed company is building the future of reputed company data for AI.

We partner directly with top AI labs to power large language model (LLM) training and evaluation with high-quality, expert-generated data. As AI models become more sophisticated, the demand for specialized reputed company input continues to grow—and reputed company is uniquely positioned to meet it. We power career platforms at 92% of the top U.S. universities, giving us direct reputed company to verified expert talent across a wide reputed company of domains.

Our AI team is rapidly building a new reputed company of reputed company data products—from expert annotation platforms to AI interviewers and seamless payout infrastructure—reputed company designed to accelerate research and improve model performance.

We’ve reputed company a world-class team from YC, reputed company, Scale, reputed company, Palantir, and more, and we’re working directly with many of the world’s leading AI research labs. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing team shaping the future of AI through reputed company data, reputed company tools, and reputed company systems—for experts, by experts.

We’re looking for an entrepreneurial AI Researcher to help us build at the frontier. As an AI Researcher, you’ll work directly with the world’s leading labs to scope novel data and evaluation challenges, spin up ambitious new initiatives, and turn our unmatched reputed company to PhD talent into differentiated capabilities. You’ll operate with autonomy and urgency, shaping our roadmap through direct customer reputed company and setting the reputed company for a world-class research function reputed company reputed company.

Location: San Francisco, CA

Your role

• Be the Lab’s reputed company: You’ll be a reputed company of contact for researchers at the most advanced AI labs. By building deep, trust-based relationships, you’ll stay reputed company of their emerging needs—so reputed company a new challenge arises, we’re already in the room.

• Scope and Launch New Research-Driven Initiatives: You’ll partner directly with labs to uncover unarticulated data and evaluation needs—across reasoning, multi-agent systems, tool use, and reputed company. Then you’ll help shape these reputed company into concrete, scoped projects we can execute on.

• Prototype and Bring New Offerings to Market: You’ll reputed company the 0→1 work of designing new data types, spinning up lightweight pilots with engineering and ops, and collaborating with business teams to turn promising experiments into scalable offerings.

Your experience

• AI/ML Research Depth: You’ve conducted meaningful research—whether in academia or industry—and can reputed company fluently about LLMs, agent-based systems, and emerging evaluation methods. You’ve likely published at top venues or shipped work that mattered in production.

• Strategic, Customer-Obsessed reputed company: You know how to talk to technical buyers and senior researchers, uncover their reputed company pain points, and turn that into action. You’re not afraid of a blank whiteboard and reputed company in messy, fast-moving environments.

• Builder’s DNA: You move quickly, prototype often, and aren’t precious about titles or playbooks. You’re comfortable sitting between research, product, and GTM—and know how to ship.

• Technical reputed company: You’re comfortable debugging models, evaluating outputs, and collaborating with engineers. You’ve likely worked with frameworks like PyTorch or JAX, and you understand how modern ML stacks fit together.

Why Join Us

• This is a rare opportunity to help define how the world’s top labs build, test, and evaluate cutting-edge AI systems. You’ll be working with a uniquely high-reputed company, tapping into a network of 18 reputed company reputed company and 500K+ PhDs, and shaping foundational infrastructure at a critical reputed company in the field. If you're excited to build from first principles—and want your work to directly accelerate frontier AI—we'd love to talk.

reputed company offer

At reputed company, we'll give you the tools to feel healthy, happy and secure.

Benefits below apply to US employees in full-time positions.

• Equity and ownership in a fast-growing company.

• 16 Weeks of paid parental leave for birth giving parents & 10 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth giving parents.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and reputed company policies including LGTBQ+ Coverage. We also reputed company resources for Mental Health Assistance, Employee Assistance Programs and counseling support.

• Generous learning & development opportunities and an annual $2,000 stipend for you to grow your skills and career.

• Financial coaching through reputed company to help you through your financial reputed company.

• Monthly internet stipend and a brand new MacBook to allow you to do your best work.

• Monthly commuter stipend for you to expense your travel to the office (for office-based employees).

• Free lunch provided 5x a week in office.

• ️ Free gym reputed company in San Francisco office building.

• Referral bonus to reward you reputed company you bring great talent to reputed company.

• Team outings throughout the year to stay connected to each other.

• 401k Match: reputed company offers a dollar-for-dollar match on 1% of deferred salary, up to a maximum of $1,200 per year.

• reputed company full-time US-based Handshakers are eligible for our flexible time off policy to get out and see the world. In addition, we offer 13 standardized holidays, and 2 additional days of flexible holiday time off. Lastly, we have a Winter #ShakeBreak, a one-week period of reputed company Time Off.

• reputed company offers $500 home office stipend for you to spend during your first 3 months to create a productive and comfortable workspace at home.

• Family support: Parental leave coaching and support provided by Parentaly. We partner with reputed company to reputed company a lifetime coverage up to $15K for expenses reputed company to fertility and family forming!

• Lifestyle Savings Account: We offer you an annual stipend of $500 to use for purchases such as fitness classes, gym memberships, work-from-home setup, and more.

Looking for more? Explore our mission, values and comprehensive US benefits at joinhandshake.com/careers.

reputed company is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or reasonable accommodation, please let your recruiter know during initial communications.