STEM Fellow - Human Frontier Collective
About the role
Fellowship opportunity to join a remote, contractor-based expert network focused on advancing frontier AI through collaboration, projects, and publications with Scale AI and its affiliated lab and platform.
Responsibilities
- Participate in AI/ML projects with Scale AI and affiliated lab/platform (e.g., building AI safety and policy guardrails, designing, reviewing, and optimizing PyTorch models, evaluating ML code and AI-generated implementations for efficiency and correctness).
- Collaborate with Scale’s research team to co-author technical reports and research papers.
- Engage in project matching and contribute to selected projects across partners (e.g., evaluating AI models, designing experiments, building RL environments, co-authoring research papers, and more).
- Attend newsletters, discussion channels, virtual sessions, IRL events, and related community activities.
Qualifications
- PhDs, postdoctoral researchers, and professors with domain expertise in STEM fields (e.g., Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Humanities or related disciplines).
- Detail-oriented, innovative thinker with a passion for applied AI research and collaboration.
Skills

About Scale AI
Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI
Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.
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