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Research Scientist - Frontier Benchmarks

Snorkel AI· 316 - Research
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Hybrid (New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; United States)$200k - $375kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Role focused on designing next-generation benchmarks and datasets to evaluate frontier models, translating insights into customer-facing narratives, and driving production integration across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design state of the art datasets that drive frontier model training and evaluation based on current model performance and academic partnerships
  • 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
  • Work cross-functionally with data operations, product, engineering, and strategy to surface research findings that inform the company roadmap
  • Stay at the frontier of LLM evaluation research and bring best practices into Snorkel's workflows
  • Represent Snorkel's research externally through publications, blog posts, conference talks, and customer engagements that advance the conversation around data-centric AI

Qualifications

  • Strong research background in AI/ML evaluation, NLP, or related fields, with a track record of rigorous experimental design — especially around measuring the impact of training and evaluation data on model behavior
  • 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
  • Ph.D. in machine learning, NLP, or a related field preferred; equivalent industry or research lab experience considered.

Skills

Required:AI/ML evaluationCommunicationCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Research publication and outreach
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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