# Research Scientist

**Company:** [Idler](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/idler)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** AI Research
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Reinforcement Learning, Post-Training, LLMs, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cursor
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Research Scientist responsible for measuring and improving how frontier models learn from tasks, designing post-training experiments, validating data quality, and creating datasets and evaluation systems. Requires production reinforcement-learning experience at a frontier lab and end-to-end LLM post-training experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Collaborate with researchers at frontier labs to design novel post-training recipes and data-quality measurement techniques.
- Design and run the in-house post-training stack to measure model lift on tasks.
- Develop new data products from available datasets and experts.
- Work with procurement to assess external data for refinement.
- Build scalable systems for ingesting and evaluating prospective data purchases.

## Requirements
- At least 1 year of experience doing reinforcement learning in production at a frontier lab.
- Track record of post-training a large language model end to end.
- Experience validating data quality and identifying opportunities for improvement.
- Ability and desire to drive the research roadmap and implementation on a fast-moving team.
- Deep curiosity about how machines learn from data and how to extract maximum learning signal from tasks.

## Technical Stack
- TypeScript
- React
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Vercel
- Cursor

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Free meals in the office.
- Healthcare.
- 401(k).
- 15 days of paid time off per year.
- Relocation assistance.

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