AI Research Engineer | $75/hr Remote
Crossing Hurdles
AI assistant
Job Description
Position: Staff Research Engineer Frontier AI, RL & Evaluation
Type: Contractor Assignment
Compensation: $75/hr
Location: Remote
Commitment: 40 hours/week, with at least 4 hours overlap during PST business hours
Role Responsibilities
- Conduct research on frontier AI systems, including synthetic and agentic data generation, reinforcement learning, post-training, model understanding, benchmarks, and AI evaluation.
- Design rigorous experiments and build research-grade datasets, prototypes, tooling, and evaluation frameworks.
- Train, test, and evaluate AI/ML models, analyze experimental results, and establish practices for rigor, reproducibility, and data quality.
- Translate research findings into practical improvements for AI systems and collaborate with research, engineering, product, and operations