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About the Role
AfterQuery is an applied research lab focused on curating data solutions for foundation model development. We aim to provide the best data to power the best AI models, making expertise accessible to everyone. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing company at a pivotal moment in AI.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a full-time project with an AfterQuery research mentor, aligned with your interests and at least one core research area.
- Formulate research questions, design rigorous experiments, and analyze the results.
- Develop the datasets, methods, evaluations, or benchmark assets the project needs.
- Document methods and results clearly and work with AfterQuery’s research and engineering teams to make the work reproducible.
- Co-author a paper and work toward publication.
Requirements
- Significant academic, clinical, legal, or industry research experience.
- A PhD, MD, JD, or equivalent advanced degree in a relevant field.
- Clear technical communication and strong scientific writing skills.
- A strong record of research or publication and demonstrated ability to take a project from initial scoping to rigorous, reproducible results.
- A passion for advancing frontier AI and some understanding of model evaluation.
- Availability to work full time in San Francisco for 12–16 weeks.
- CV or résumé.
- Two or three links to representative research, code, or technical work.
- A 1–2-page response to the Research Proposal Prompt below, including one or two example tasks (references and an optional appendix excluded).
Skills
- Data quality and data composition
- Post-training, including supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning
- Agent and foundation-model evaluation
- Public benchmarks in coding and specialized domains such as medicine, finance, law, and STEM
- Technical communication
- Scientific writing
- Model evaluation
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Experienced researchers
Education Level
- PhD
- MD
- JD
- Equivalent advanced degree
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Daily UberEats Stipend
- Monthly Wellness Stipend
- Commute Covered
About the Company
- AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development.
- We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models.
- In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.
- Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve.
- This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI.
- We are YC's fastest unicorn, valued at $3.2 billion.
- We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.
- Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.
- We comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors.
- Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law.