Machine Learning Scientist ML Research

Arena is a community-powered AI evaluation platform where people compare frontier-model outputs and vote, generating human-preference data and public leaderboards.

San Francisco, United States
About Arena

Arena Intelligence, Inc. operates Arena, formerly LMArena and previously known as Chatbot Arena. Its platform measures real-world AI model performance through user comparisons, votes, leaderboards, and agentic evaluation.

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About the Role

You will design and conduct experiments on AI model behavior, create metrics and evaluation protocols, and analyze large-scale human preference data. You will prototype research ideas, collaborate to scale findings into production, publish research, support model-provider testing, and strengthen the scientific integrity of evaluation tools and leaderboards.

Requirements

  • PhD or equivalent research experience in machine learning, natural language processing, statistics, or a related field
  • Experience training large-scale models, reward models, preference models, and fine-tuned LLMs
  • Knowledge of RLHF, DPO, and contrastive learning
  • Knowledge of machine learning, statistics, LLMs, Transformers, diffusion models, and deep learning
  • Proficiency in Python and PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
  • Experience designing and analyzing statistically rigorous experiments
  • Experience publishing ML, NLP, or AI evaluation research or contributing to open-source projects
  • Experience with real-world usage data and evaluation metrics

Responsibilities

  • Design and conduct experiments evaluating AI model behavior
  • Develop evaluation metrics, methodologies, and protocols
  • Analyze large-scale human voting and interaction data
  • Implement and scale research findings with engineers
  • Prototype and test research ideas
  • Author internal reports and external publications
  • Partner with model providers on evaluation questions and testing
  • Contribute to the integrity and transparency of evaluation tools and leaderboards

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Additional health and wellness support programs