Forward Deployed Research Scientist

📋 Description

• Engage with frontier lab research teams in client scoping meetings.
• Collaborate with Applied Research to publish findings from projects.
• Fine-tune open-weight models to validate data methodology.
• Reason scientifically about data strategy in real time.
• Work across multiple client engagements with rapid feedback loops.

🎯 Requirements

• MS or PhD in ML, NLP, CS, or related quantitative field.
• Hands-on fine-tuning of open-weight LLMs (Llama, Mistral, Qwen).
• Strong understanding of LLM training pipelines and data quality.
• Experience designing rigorous experiments with statistics.
• Ability to deliver experiments in days, not months.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Strongly preferred: frontier AI lab or applied ML startup experience.
• Strongly preferred: evaluation benchmarks and RLHF experience.

🎁 Benefits

• Location: SF or Wroclaw; hybrid with 2 days in office.
• Small, high-leverage team with direct client impact.
• Hybrid work model with fast-paced delivery and short sprints.
• Growth: career advancement tied to impact.
• Opportunity to publish research and contribute to benchmarks.
• Research time protected (25-30% of team capacity).