Research Scientist - Environments, Data and Post-Training
Mercor · San Francisco
CHECKED 12M AGO
Applied AIonsite$250k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Develop novel post-training methods to improve model reasoning and agentic behavior.
- Build large-scale RL pipelines and environments that shape frontier model behavior.
- Design experiments on data, rewards, and optimization to improve model performance.
What they offer
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Up to $15k relocation bonus
- $10K housing bonus if within 0.5 miles of office
- $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
- Free Equinox membership
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Ideal candidate
A rigorous ML researcher excited by post-training and data-centric problems who thrives in high-intensity, in-person collaboration and wants their experiments to shape frontier models and products.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience training and evaluating machine learning models
- Strong research record in post-training, reinforcement learning, language-model evaluation, data-centric ML, or closely related field
- Ability to reason rigorously about model behavior, experimental results, and data quality
- Strong programming skills and experience implementing machine learning systems
- Knowledge of the current AI research landscape and important open problems
- remote policy
- In-person five days a week
Lab profile
About Mercor
AI data company organizing human expertise to train frontier models for the AI economy.
What they build
- APEX benchmark family
- Mercor Enterprise
- Human expertise training data platform
Known for
- Massive domain-expert network
- Frontier model training infrastructure
- Real-world professional work evaluation
Key facts
- Millions of domain experts on platform
- Pays over $4M per day to experts