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Research Scientist Intern

Trata
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Hybrid (New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA)$10k/mo - $17k/moInternPosted 5mo ago

About the role

AI-powered research desk for hedge funds. Trata is hiring a summer Research Scientist Intern (potential post-grad/contract option) to design datasets, evaluation rubrics, and benchmarks that influence frontier model learning, with potential to co-write a paper and contribute to large-scale model training. Requires in-person presence in NYC and SF with travel covered; remote portion possible for the right candidate.

Responsibilities

  • Design data slices that expose meaningful model failure modes
  • Build and refine evaluation rubrics and reward signals for RLHF and RLVR training pipelines
  • Develop quantitative frameworks for measuring dataset quality, diversity, and downstream impact on alignment and capability
  • Partner with lab research teams to translate training objectives into concrete data and evaluation specifications

Qualifications

  • Deep curiosity and motivation around how data structure, selection, and quality drive model behavior
  • Ability to design lightweight experiments, move fast, and extract actionable insights from messy results
  • A bias toward building over theorizing
  • Prior experience at an AI safety org, benchmarking org, or RL environment company is a strong plus

Skills

Required:Data design and dataset constructionEvaluation rubric designQuantitative evaluation frameworksExperiment design
Nice to have:AI safety/benchmarking experience

Benefits

  • Travel for in-person collaboration (Trata pays for travel)
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AI-powered research desk for hedge funds

Trata is an AI-powered research desk for hedge funds. We use agents to interview hedge fund analysts, write investment research, and distribute this through a subscription.

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