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Posted 1mo ago•Menlo Park, CA

Research Engineer, Midtraining

MiddleOn-site (Menlo Park)€5,000 – €6,700 / mo
Job Description

We're an AI and physical sciences company building state-of-the-art models to accelerate breakthroughs across materials, energy, and beyond. Backed by world-class investors and growing rapidly, we operate at the pace the frontier requires. Our team brings deep expertise, genuine ownership, and a drive to push the boundaries of what's scientifically possible.

About the Role

We're training frontier models to develop deep scientific knowledge and reasoning for scientific discovery. As a Midtraining Research Engineer, you'll take base models and improve their scientific reasoning: curating and generating data, building evals, and running large-scale training experiments. Your work will also lay the groundwork for our pre-training efforts down the line.

What You'll Do

  • Identify, process, and curate novel sources of scientific data for large-scale model training.

  • Generate high-quality synthetic data to fill gaps in scientific knowledge and reasoning.

  • Build evaluations that correlate with downstream scientific task performance, working closely with RL researchers, physicists, and chemists.

  • Develop and apply techniques such as self-di

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