Member of Technical Staff, AI Researcher
Venture studio that launches, operates, and scales technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security.
About Red Cell Partners
Red Cell Partners is an active McLean, Virginia-based venture studio founded in 2020. It creates, incubates, operates, and scales mission-critical technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security, with both incubation and investment activities.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will blend research and engineering to build evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, reward models, verifiers and graders for frontier LLMs and agents. You will run controlled fine-tuning and reinforcement learning experiments, build human data systems, and move promising methods into production-quality implementations.
Requirements
- 5+ years in machine learning, AI, computer science, data science or software engineering
- Ability to operate at the intersection of AI research and software engineering
- Strong Python skills
- Hands-on experience with AI agents, model evaluations, reinforcement learning or post-training
- Understanding of frontier AI methods and training-data design
- Experience with reward models, verifiers or graders
- Strong analytical, communication and documentation skills
- U.S. citizenship required
Responsibilities
- Design and build evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for LLMs, agents, multimodal models and RL environments
- Develop reward models, programmatic verifiers and graders
- Run controlled SFT and reinforcement learning experiments
- Define what makes evaluations representative of real-world work
- Build systems for high-quality human data and annotation
- Prototype, evaluate and diagnose failure modes
- Move methods into scalable production implementations
- Contribute to benchmarks, open-source tools and technical writing
Benefits
- 100% employer paid health care including medical, dental and vision for you and your family
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks
- Unlimited PTO with management approval
- Optional 401K and FSA
- Equity incentives
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind
- GLP-1 solutions through Crux
