Research Scientist

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

Develop new methods for building specialized models that learn reliably and solve difficult tasks. We’re hiring research scientists across post-training, reinforcement learning, continual learning, multimodal models, evaluation, and interpretability. Your research focus will depend on your strengths and the questions you pursue with the team.

You might develop new training methods, investigate how models acquire and retain skills, design evaluations for long-horizon reasoning, study model internals, or explore architectures and learning strategies for specialized domains. You’ll formulate hypotheses, implement and run experiments, compare against meaningful baselines, and work with research engineers to turn useful findings into practical capabilities. Communicate results clearly, including limitations and competing explanations.

Requirements

• Typically 3+ years of relevant ML research experience, or equivalent demonstrated research contributions. Relevant doctoral research counts toward experience.

• Independent drive for research. Top candidates can discuss at length contemporary research in language model training.

• At least one substantial original research contribution demonstrated through a paper or open-source implementation.

• Depth in at least one of post-training, reinforcement learning, continual learning, multimodal learning, evaluation, interpretability, systems, or inference.

• For work focused on model training: typically 1+ year of hands-on language or multimodal model training, including doctoral research, or equivalent completed training projects.

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Job details

Salary

$150,000 - $250,000

Equity

0.5% - 1.5%

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameTrainLoop
IndustryEngineering, Product and Design
Team Size6

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
MMarble Creek Ventures
MMoonfire
OOlive Tree Capital
Pioneer Fund

Founders

Mason Pierce

Mason Pierce

Co-Founder & CTO

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Jackson Stokes

Jackson Stokes

Co-Founder & CEO

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.