Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Human Flourishing

Skills

About the Role

You will turn hard-to-define signals of long-term flourishing into measurable improvements in model behavior. You will develop scalable training methods, lead research from open question to shipped improvement, build RL environments for hard-to-verify outcomes, create human-grounded evaluations, test whether behavior measures predict long-term outcomes, and partner with product, engineering, and domain experts.

Requirements

• Strong research record in pretraining or RL/post-training, especially hard-to-verify areas, or LLM skills combined with expertise in education or mental health
• Hands-on ability to run experiments, write and debug code, and work with data and training infrastructure
• Ability to own ambiguous problems
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable training methods that improve how models understand values, support agency, and help achieve long-term goals
• Lead research from open question to shipped improvement
• Build RL environments for difficult-to-verify outcomes
• Create evaluations grounded in human expertise and feedback
• Test whether measures of model behavior predict better long-term outcomes
• Build new 0→1 capabilities in human domains
• Partner with product, engineering, partnerships teams, and domain experts to deploy methods
• Assess AI's impacts on human flourishing at scale

Benefits

• Equity
• Relocation support
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
• Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks birth parents, 20 weeks non-birthing parents)
• Paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Flexible PTO for exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
• Paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
• Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends