Senior Research Scientist at AI Safety | San Francisco

The traditional credit landscape often favors those who are already financially secure, imposing stringent requirements for credit history, collateral, and expensive underwriting processes. Unfortunately, this leaves over 1.4 billion individuals without access to essential credit services. Consider a vendor in Lagos, who earns cash daily but lacks the documentation to prove a consistent income, or a Colombian nurse with impeccable informal repayment history, yet remains overlooked by banks.At Divine Research, we have developed an innovative solution known as Credit. Launched in December 2024, we have already provided hundreds of thousands of undercollateralized loans utilizing stablecoins. These loans have empowered individuals globally to cover essential expenses such as groceries, healthcare, and transportation. With a robust backing of $6.6 million from Paradigm and Nascent, we are scaling our system which has successfully assisted half a million unique borrowers. Join us in elevating our mission further.About the RoleWe are on the lookout for a skilled Data Scientist to enhance our data infrastructure and extract actionable insights across our product offerings, specifically focusing on Credit, our premier undercollateralized lending platform. In this role, you will be responsible for designing key metrics, building analytics infrastructure, and converting on-chain data into strategic insights that influence product development and roadmap decisions.Technology StackPythonSQLGrafana/PrometheusStatistical modeling and visualization toolsBlockchain data and indexing tools (Dune, Shovel)Key ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with product and research teams to establish north star metricsDevelop scalable data pipelines and dashboardsTranslate key metrics and trends into practical guidance for product development, strategy, and go-to-market initiativesDesign and analyze A/B tests and experimental studiesConduct comprehensive analyses of user behaviors and usage patternsQualifications4+ years of experience in a Data Scientist or Research Analyst roleStrong proficiency in Python, SQL, and various data analysis toolsIn-depth understanding of EVM-compatible chains, smart contract data, and indexing toolsExcellent problem-solving skills and attention to detailAbility to communicate complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders

The traditional credit system often excludes those who need it the most, imposing barriers like credit history and collateral requirements. Over 1.4 billion individuals worldwide lack access to credit facilities. Consider the vendor in Lagos, earning daily but unable to prove a steady income, or the Colombian nurse with an impeccable record of informal repayments, yet remains invisible to banks.In response, we developed an innovative solution called Credit. Since its launch in December 2024, Credit has successfully issued hundreds of thousands of undercollateralized loans utilizing stablecoins. These loans have empowered individuals globally to purchase essentials such as groceries, medicine, and transportation. With strong financial backing of $6.6 million from Paradigm and Nascent, we are eager to expand our reach to even more borrowers. Join us in this transformative journey.About the RoleAt Divine Research, we are constantly on the lookout for exceptional individuals who thrive at the cutting edge of innovation. Even if we don't have a specific position open that matches your skills, we are keen to connect with remarkable talents.Are you a creator who brings visions to fruition? A strategist who identifies opportunities that others overlook? A marketer with a knack for weaving captivating narratives? Whatever your forte, if you are passionate about shaping the future, we would love to hear your story and the impact you aspire to make.Divine Research is an equal opportunity employer.

Join Mercor as a Data ScientistAt Mercor, we stand at the forefront of labor markets and artificial intelligence research. We collaborate with top-tier AI laboratories and businesses to infuse the human intelligence crucial for the evolution of AI.Our expansive talent network empowers frontier AI models, mirroring the way educators impart knowledge: sharing insights and experiences that transcend mere coding. Currently, our network boasts over 30,000 experts generating more than $2 million daily.We are pioneering a new work paradigm where specialized expertise drives AI progress. To realize this vision, we seek a dynamic, fast-paced, and dedicated team. You will collaborate with leading researchers, operators, and AI companies, playing a pivotal role in the systems that are reshaping society.As a profitable Series C company, Mercor is valued at $10 billion and operates from our new headquarters in San Francisco with an in-office work schedule five days a week.Your RoleIn your first year, you will implement analyses and experiments that enhance key product metrics, including match quality, time-to-hire, candidate experience, and revenue. Your responsibilities will include:Establishing north-star and feature-specific metrics for our ranking systems, interview analytics, and payout frameworks.Designing and executing A/B tests and quasi-experiments, translating results into product decisions within the same week.Creating source-of-truth dashboards and streamlined data models to enable teams to self-serve answers.Collaborating with engineers to instrument events, enhancing data quality and latency from ingestion to insights.Rapidly prototyping models (from baseline models to gradient boosting) to optimize matching and scoring.Assisting in the evaluation of LLM-powered agents through the design of rubrics, human-in-the-loop studies, and guardrail mechanisms.What Makes You a Great FitYou possess strong foundational skills in statistics, SQL, and Python, alongside projects you are eager to showcase. You adapt swiftly, frame inquiries, test hypotheses, and deliver results within a day, valuing clarity in communication as much as statistical significance. A keen interest in LLM evaluation, retrieval, and ranking is a plus; you will learn alongside professionals from renowned firms such as Jane Street, Citadel, Databricks, and Stripe.

Join the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a pioneering research and advocacy organization dedicated to addressing the societal-scale risks posed by artificial intelligence. We tackle the most pressing challenges in AI through rigorous technical research, innovative field-building initiatives, and proactive policy engagement, in collaboration with our sister organization, the Center for AI Safety Action Fund.As a Research Scientist, you will spearhead and conduct transformative research aimed at enhancing the safety and dependability of cutting-edge AI systems. Your responsibilities will include designing and executing experiments on large language models, developing the necessary tools for training and evaluating models at scale, and converting your findings into publishable research. You will work closely with CAIS researchers and external partners from academia and industry, utilizing our compute cluster for large-scale model training and evaluation. Your research will focus on critical areas such as AI honesty, robustness, transparency, and the detection of trojan/backdoor behaviors, all aimed at mitigating real-world risks associated with advanced AI technologies.

About AfterQuery AfterQuery partners with leading AI labs to advance training data and evaluation frameworks. The team builds high-signal datasets and runs thorough evaluations that go beyond standard benchmarks. As a post-Series A, early-stage company in San Francisco, AfterQuery gives each team member room to shape the future of AI models. Role Overview: Research Scientist - Frontier Data This role focuses on designing datasets and developing evaluation systems that influence how top AI models are trained and assessed. Working closely with research teams at major AI labs, the scientist explores new data collection techniques, investigates where models fall short, and sets up metrics to track progress. The work is hands-on and experimental, moving quickly from hypothesis to live testing and directly impacting large-scale model training. Key Responsibilities Design data slides and analyze data structures to uncover model weaknesses in areas like finance, software development, and enterprise operations. Build and refine evaluation rubrics and reward signals for RLHF and RLVR training approaches. Study annotator behavior and run experiments to improve model capabilities across different domains. Develop quantitative frameworks to measure dataset quality, diversity, and their effect on model alignment and performance. Work with research teams to turn training objectives into concrete data and evaluation needs. What We Look For Experience as an undergraduate or master’s research student (PhD not required). Background or internships with RL environments or AI safety and benchmarking organizations (e.g., METR, Artificial Analysis) is a strong plus. Genuine interest in how data structure, selection, and quality affect model outcomes. Demonstrated skill in designing experiments, acting quickly, and extracting insights from complex data. Comfort working across sectors such as finance, software engineering, and policy. Strong quantitative background and familiarity with LLM training pipelines, RLHF/RLVR methods, or evaluation frameworks. A hands-on mindset focused on building practical solutions.

Genmo is a pioneering research laboratory dedicated to advancing cutting-edge models for video generation, with the mission of unlocking the creative potential of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). We invite you to be a part of our innovative team, where you can contribute to shaping the future of AI and expanding the horizons of video generation technology.Role Overview:We are on the lookout for a talented Research Scientist to join our dynamic team, specializing in alignment and post-training methodologies for large-scale video generation models. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in ensuring our diffusion-based video models consistently deliver high-quality, physically accurate, and safe outputs that align with human values and preferences.Key Responsibilities:Lead groundbreaking research initiatives in alignment and post-training strategies for video generation models, prioritizing enhanced quality, reliability, and alignment with human intent.Design and implement supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) pipelines for video generation models.Establish robust evaluation frameworks to assess model alignment, safety, and output quality.Create and optimize data collection pipelines for capturing human feedback and preferences.Conduct experiments to validate alignment techniques and their scalability.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to incorporate alignment enhancements into our production workflow.Stay abreast of the latest developments by reviewing academic literature in generative AI and alignment.Mentor junior researchers and promote a culture of responsible AI development.Partner closely with product teams to ensure that alignment methods enhance model capabilities.Qualifications:Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a closely related field.Demonstrated excellence with a strong publication record in top-tier conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) focusing on reinforcement learning, alignment, or generative models.Extensive experience in implementing and optimizing large-scale training pipelines utilizing PyTorch.In-depth understanding of reinforcement learning techniques, especially RLHF.Proficient in distributed training systems and conducting large-scale experiments.Proven ability to design and implement robust evaluation strategies for models.

RoleAs a Research Scientist at OpenEvidence, you will explore the potential of cutting-edge models, leveraging a strong research foundation to build practical systems rather than merely publishing papers. You will take ownership of projects from conception to execution, valuing evaluation and quantitative validation as integral components of your work.We seek exceptional innovators who are not confined to narrow specializations. Our engineers and scientists collaborate across diverse products and projects, driving impactful work wherever their skills can shine.About UsOpenEvidence is the leading medical AI platform globally, rapidly adopted by over 40% of US clinicians within just one year through organic, product-driven growth. With a valuation of $12B, our engineering team comprises 30 talented individuals from prestigious institutions like MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. We believe that transformative products emerge from a select group of exceptional builders who are empowered to take initiative and work swiftly toward focused goals. Join us as we embark on a unique opportunity to establish the standard platform for medical AI.CultureWe hold that work should engage at a world-class level. Building from 0 to 1 and scaling from 1 to 1000 is akin to a professional sport, where uncompromising excellence is the standard. We assert that the creation of unprecedented technologies requires complete ownership, and significant achievements arise when individuals commit to them.Who Are You?If your goal is to clock in and out with minimal engagement, this role is not for you. If you prefer to write papers rather than roll up your sleeves and get involved in creating impactful solutions that influence millions, this position may be your calling. The ideal candidate is a remarkable builder—intelligent, ambitious, resourceful, self-driven, meticulous, motivated, diligent, and humble. We recognize this profile is rare, which is why we have only identified 30 such individuals and are eager to find more.LocationAll engineering roles are in-person, requiring attendance five days a week in either San Francisco or Miami.

About SemgrepSemgrep stands at the forefront of code security, empowering developers to innovate seamlessly. Our platform enables teams to identify, flag, and resolve genuine security issues before deployment, supported by an adaptive security system that evolves with their development process. Semgrep not only safeguards code in real-time but also offers essential guardrails that facilitate rapid development without compromising security. Trusted by top organizations like Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma, we are recognized by Gartner for excellence in Application Security Testing. To learn more about our mission, visit semgrep.dev.Founded in San Francisco and backed by prominent investors including Menlo Ventures and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is dedicated to continuous improvement, ensuring that our AI-driven system minimizes false positives and prioritizes actionable vulnerabilities. Experience the future of secure coding with us.

Join SoFi, a leading personal finance company, as a Data Scientist where you will leverage data to drive strategic decisions and enhance user experiences. In this role, you will analyze complex datasets, build predictive models, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to propel our innovative solutions forward.

Superhuman offers an engaging hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach provides team members with a balance of focused time and in-person collaboration, fostering trust, innovation, and a vibrant team culture. Team members for this position must reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. About SuperhumanSuperhuman, now part of Grammarly, is an AI productivity platform dedicated to unlocking extraordinary potential in everyone. Our suite of apps and agents seamlessly integrates AI into over 1 million applications and websites, including Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that comprehends context and provides automatic assistance. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers more than 40 million individuals, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and concentrate on what truly matters. Discover more at superhuman.com and explore our values here.The OpportunityTo achieve our ambitious goals, we are seeking skilled Data Scientists to join our Product and Growth Data Science teams. At Superhuman, data teams are regarded as trusted experts who reveal new insights to shape marketing, product, and growth strategies that drive significant outcomes across the organization. We have access to large datasets and are looking for individuals with exceptional technical and analytical abilities who can dissect complex business challenges and offer solutions that deliver high visibility and impactful results for the company.Growth Data Scientists collaborate closely with product, engineering, growth, and/or lifecycle marketing teams. They are tasked with designing and executing product experiments, as well as performing intricate analyses to guide product strategy through advanced analytics and machine learning. The ideal candidate will possess a proven record of delivering significant analytical projects within the Growth domain and working alongside cross-functional colleagues to influence decision-making.Product Data Scientists are responsible for assessing the quality of the Superhuman products, ensuring that our offerings are not only innovative but also user-friendly and effective.

Join Mixpanel as a Data Scientist and contribute to our mission of helping businesses make data-driven decisions. In this role, you will analyze complex datasets, develop predictive models, and provide actionable insights to enhance our product offerings.

Join Mindlance as a Data Scientist, where you will leverage data to drive insights and support decision-making processes. You will be responsible for analyzing complex datasets, developing predictive models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance business strategies.

Join Metriport as a Data Scientist and be at the forefront of data-driven decision making! In this role, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to derive insights from complex datasets, enhancing our product offerings and driving strategic initiatives.

Join Our Team as a Research ScientistAt Parallel, we are at the forefront of web infrastructure innovation, enabling businesses across sectors such as sales, marketing, insurance, and technology to harness the power of AI. Our state-of-the-art products empower users to develop superior AI agents with seamless and flexible access to the web.With significant backing of $130 million from prominent investors like Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, and Spark Capital, we are dedicated to redefining the web for artificial intelligence. As we expand, we're assembling a top-tier team of engineers, designers, marketers, sales experts, researchers, and operational specialists committed to our vision.Your Role: As a Research Scientist, you will tackle the challenge of training and scaling models designed to enhance web indexing capabilities.About You: You possess a profound understanding of contemporary models and training methodologies. You enjoy engaging in discussions about the convergence of search, recommendations, and transformer models, and are passionate about translating your research into impactful products and systems utilized by millions.

Join Aircall, the leading integrated customer communications and intelligence platform that empowers growing businesses worldwide. With a trusted network of over 20,000 companies, Aircall seamlessly integrates voice and digital channels into one powerful platform, featuring one-click connections with top CRMs and over 100 essential business tools. Our AI-driven insights and automation capabilities enable sales and support teams to optimize their time, discover new opportunities, and deliver outstanding customer experiences. With a diverse global team of over 600 in cities such as Paris, New York, San Francisco, and more, Aircall is revolutionizing the way businesses engage with their customers, fostering deeper relationships and driving measurable success.Our Work Culture: At Aircall, we prioritize customer satisfaction, continuous learning, and extraordinary results. We encourage open collaboration, ownership, and swift, informed decision-making. If you thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment where curiosity, trust, and impact are key, you will fit right in.About Our TeamThe Data team at Aircall is integral to our decision-making process, driving innovation and growth through advanced data solutions, tools, and actionable insights.Role OverviewAs a Senior Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in providing insights to our product and business teams, collaborating closely with product and engineering leaders. You will support key initiatives such as pricing strategies, packaging, multi-product approaches, and self-service solutions. Additionally, you will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Relations to translate data requirements into impactful solutions. Your contributions will also include establishing best practices in analytics and mentoring team members to uphold high standards in data governance and insight generation.

Join Grindr as a Staff Data Scientist in a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Chicago offices, requiring in-office presence on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Why This Role is Unique?Grindr (NYSE: GRND) is the world’s largest LGBTQ+ social application, boasting over 14 million monthly users globally. We are not just a platform but a vital part of the LGBTQ+ community and a cornerstone of gay culture.As a Staff Data Scientist, you will collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to create insightful metrics that drive product development. You will design and implement innovative experiments, present data-driven insights for decision-making, and explore new growth strategies through comprehensive analysis. This role allows you to work on deployed models that enhance the user experience for millions, while becoming an informal ambassador for the Data Science team, educating others on effective data utilization.You will be part of a dynamic data organization at Grindr that integrates data scientists, data engineers, and ML/AI engineers into a united and collaborative team. This is a unique opportunity to learn, share knowledge, and make a significant impact alongside industry leaders.Your ResponsibilitiesExtract actionable insights from complex, open-ended queries.Design and assess experiments to evaluate the impact of product changes.Analyze product data to identify root causes behind metric fluctuations.Effectively communicate findings to cross-functional stakeholders to inform product strategies.Develop tools to scale and automate analyses, enhancing company productivity.Mentor and guide team members, recommending best practices.Apply an engineering mindset to reduce complexity while maximizing utility and maintainability.Contribute to the development of future ML solutions to enhance recommendations, detect spam, and better serve our users.

Sciforium is an innovative AI infrastructure company specializing in the development of state-of-the-art multimodal AI models, alongside a proprietary high-efficiency serving platform. With substantial financial backing and direct collaboration with AMD, including hands-on support from AMD engineers, our rapidly growing team is dedicated to building the comprehensive stack that powers cutting-edge AI models and real-time applications.Role OverviewWe are on the lookout for a highly skilled and visionary Data Scientist to spearhead the strategy and creation of vast datasets essential for our foundational models. In the realm of Large Language Models (LLMs), we recognize that data is the key competitive advantage. This role will encompass the entire data lifecycle—from extensive web-scale crawling to the meticulous creation of human-aligned datasets that dictate model behavior.The ideal candidate will embrace data as both a large-scale engineering challenge and a complex analytical puzzle. Your responsibilities will extend beyond simply delivering data; you will design taxonomies, filtering heuristics, and post-training pipelines to ensure our models excel in reasoning, safety, and multimodal comprehension.Key ResponsibilitiesFoundation Dataset Strategy: Oversee the comprehensive creation of pre-training datasets for LLMs, defining the optimal mix of web data, code, literature, and technical documents to enhance downstream model performance.Petabyte-Scale Curation: Innovate and implement advanced pipelines for data cleaning, deduplication (exact and fuzzy), and high-quality signal extraction from vast amounts of unstructured data.Post-Training & Alignment Data: Direct the creation of high-quality post-training datasets, including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) instructions, multi-turn dialogues, and preference modeling data (RLHF/DPO).Multimodal Expansion: Lead the acquisition and processing of vision and video data, addressing the challenges of multimodal alignment, video compression, and temporal data consistency.High-Performance Engineering: Create high-throughput data processing scripts utilizing Python, employing multiprocessing and multithreading to manage large-scale ingestion and transformation without performance bottlenecks.Data Profiling & Analysis: Perform in-depth statistical analysis on training datasets to uncover biases, knowledge gaps, and quality regressions, ensuring a mathematically balanced model diet.Synthetic Data Generation: (Added Value) Develop pipelines to generate high-quality synthetic datasets that enhance model training and capabilities.

At Superhuman, we embrace a vibrant hybrid working model that combines focused work time with essential in-person collaboration, cultivating trust, innovation, and a robust team culture.Our Data Scientists must be located in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City.About SuperhumanSuperhuman is an AI productivity platform aiming to unlock the superhuman potential inherent in everyone. With a suite of applications and agents, Superhuman integrates seamlessly with over 1 million applications and websites, delivering advanced tools including Grammarly's writing assistance, Coda's collaborative workspaces, Mail's inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that responds to context and offers assistance automatically. Since our founding in 2009, we have empowered over 40 million individuals, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions globally to eliminate mundane tasks and focus on what truly matters. Discover more at superhuman.com and explore our values here.The OpportunityTo fulfill our ambitious objectives, we are seeking accomplished Data Scientists to join our Product and Growth Data Science teams. Data teams at Superhuman are trusted experts who reveal new insights to guide marketing, product, and growth strategies that yield significant outcomes for the company. We manage extensive datasets and are looking for individuals with exceptional technical and analytical capabilities to dissect complex business challenges and provide impactful solutions.Growth Data Scientists work closely with product, engineering, growth, and lifecycle marketing teams. They are responsible for designing and executing product experiments and performing intricate analyses to shape product strategies through advanced analytics and machine learning. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a proven history of delivering significant analytical projects in the Growth sector and collaborating effectively with cross-functional peers to influence decision-making.Product Data Scientists focus on assessing the quality of Superhuman products across the board, evaluating everything from the usefulness and accuracy of text suggestions to the engagement of new AI features.

About AirwallexAirwallex stands as the premier unified payments and financial platform tailored for global enterprises. Our unique blend of proprietary infrastructure and advanced software empowers over 200,000 businesses across the globe, including notable names such as Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, and SHEIN. We offer fully integrated solutions for managing everything from business accounts and payments to spend management, treasury services, and embedded finance on a global scale.Founded in Melbourne with a dynamic workforce of over 2,000 innovative professionals across 26 global offices, Airwallex is valued at $8 billion. We are backed by leading investors such as T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, positioning us at the forefront of creating the future of global payments and financial services. If you are ready to embark on the most ambitious journey of your career, we invite you to join us.Attributes We ValueWe seek builders with an entrepreneurial spirit who aspire for real impact, accelerated growth, and genuine ownership. You bring deep expertise and analytical thinking, driven by our mission and operating principles. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating curiosity and making decisions based on foundational principles while balancing speed with thoroughness.With a humble and collaborative approach, you transform innovative ideas into tangible products and ensure projects are completed from start to finish. Leveraging AI, you work efficiently and solve problems quickly. Here, you will tackle complex, high-impact challenges alongside exceptional teammates and advance your career as we redefine the future of global banking. If this resonates with you, let's innovate together.Growth Data Science TeamThe Growth Data Science team is at the heart of Airwallex’s growth strategy, leveraging data and AI to create a sustainable competitive edge. We design and implement advanced solutions encompassing predictive modeling, personalization, LLM-powered systems, incentive optimization, and causal inference to drive significant growth throughout the customer journey.Discover more about our data science team in this blog.The RoleWe are on the lookout for a Senior Data Scientist to collaborate closely with our Growth and Marketing teams. Your role will involve designing, deploying, and refining impactful data science initiatives that drive our growth objectives.