Research Resident

About the role

A six-month, full-time research placement for people early in a research career. You'll own one question about data, rewards or evaluation, run the experiments, and write it up with a mentor from the research team.

Responsibilities

• Own a research question, scoped with your mentor in the first month
• Execute whatever the project needs: datasets, environments, training runs, evaluations
• Participate in regular progress reviews and plan adjustments
• Produce a report or paper and reproducible code

Requirements

• Master's or PhD in progress or recently completed, or equivalent independent research
• Strong Python and some experience with language model training or evaluation
• Evidence you can finish a project: a thesis, a paper, a substantial open source contribution
• Availability for six months full-time

Preferred qualifications

• Publications or preprints
• Domain expertise in one of our program areas