Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI

Research Scientist - Frontier Benchmarks

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$325kDetected 54 days ago
Machine LearningNLPLLMsResearchExperimental DesignLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • This is a highly visible, customer-facing role at the intersection of research, company strategy, and go-to-market.
  • This role reports directly to the Head of Research and is ideal for someone who is energized by cross-functional work and wants to understand how startups operate across research, data operations, and commercial teams.
  • Translate benchmark insights into clear, compelling narratives that articulate the ROI of expert-curated data for customer-facing presentations, technical reports, and go-to-market materials.

Responsibilities

  • Design state of the art datasets that drive frontier model training and evaluation based on current model performance and academic partnerships
  • the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems.
  • We work with some of the world's largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before.
  • You'll design datasets taking into account frontier model performance and work with our academic partners, and then partner with delivery, product and go-to-market to scale out production.

Nice to have

  • Exceptional communication skills - able to present complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment with ambiguous problem spaces
  • Genuine interest in GTM strategy, startup dynamics, and the commercial side of AI data services.
  • equivalent industry or research lab experience considered.
  • Be Your Best at Snorkel
  • As a member of our team, you'll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success.
  • Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
  • All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

Compensation

  • $200k-$325k

Company info

  • Work cross-functionally with data operations, product, engineering, and strategy to surface research findings that inform the company roadmap.
  • We're looking for a Research Scientist to collaborate with partners and lead the development of the next frontier benchmarks and datasets.
  • You will also serve as a credible technical partner for our customers, prospects, and drive results that impact the broader research community.

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