Researcher, Post Training
Cartesia · *HQ - San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 7H AGO
Applied AIonsite$180k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Develop post-training methods that make multimodal models adaptive and aligned.
- Build feedback-driven learning systems to improve reasoning across modalities.
- Shape how Cartesia foundation models learn, improve and connect with people.
What they offer
- Competitive base salary and equity package
- Fully covered medical, dental and vision insurance for you and family
- 9 weeks paternity and 12 weeks maternity leave
- 401(k)
- Monthly commuter allowance
- Flexible PTO
- Daily lunch, dinner and snacks
Ideal candidate
ML researcher passionate about alignment and multimodal intelligence who thrives at the intersection of research and engineering and wants to translate novel post-training ideas into real-world models.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of preference optimization and alignment methods, including RLHF and related approaches
- Experience designing evaluations and metrics for generative or multimodal models
- Strong engineering and debugging skills, with experience building or scaling complex ML systems
- Ability to trace and diagnose complex behaviors in model performance across training and evaluation pipeline
- remote policy
- In-person team based out of offices in San Francisco, London and Bangalore
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship support provided, assessed on a case-by-case basis
Lab profile
About Cartesia
Architects efficient State Space Model foundation models for human-like real-time AI interaction.
Known for
- State Space Models (SSMs)
- Efficient large-scale foundation models
- Model innovation and systems engineering