Research Scientist – First Author
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Research Fellow validating AI-generated scientific research for a specialized AI lab. Creating benchmark tasks, evaluation standards, and a public first-author research paper.
Responsibilities:
- Validate AI-generated paper reproductions, simulations, and research results.
- Map key research areas and taxonomy within your field.
- Define what “good research” looks like for AI systems.
- Create benchmark tasks and evaluation standards for frontier models.
- Contribute directly to the benchmark paper and public eval release.
Requirements:
- Current PhD student or postdoc in a relevant STEM field.
- Based at a strong research university or institute.
- At least one published paper in your field.
- Able to critically review research and identify methodological or technical errors.
- Currently using AI for Science in your own research.
- Significant hands-on use of tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar AI agents.
Benefits:
- Be a lead / first author on a public benchmark paper.
- Help create one of the first research benchmarks in your scientific field.
- Work directly with a niche AI research lab and frontier AI researchers.
- Flexible remote work designed around academic commitments.
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