Research Engineer - Posttraining
Research Engineer - Posttraining
Research Engineer - Posttraining
Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs is an AI and physical sciences lab focused on building advanced models for scientific discovery. The Research Engineer - Posttraining role involves post-training frontier models to automate scientific processes, collaborating with experts in the field, and developing evaluation tasks and reinforcement learning environments.
Qualification
- Experience in creating and scaling RL environments for large language models (LLMs)
- Ability to create high-quality evaluations for frontier models
- Experience working with domain experts to define evaluation criteria
- Skill in crafting training datasets and reward functions
- Experience in training frontier LLMs using reinforcement learning
Responsibility
- Post-train frontier models for scientific discovery processes
- Generate hypotheses and design experiments for lab execution
- Operate sophisticated scientific equipment
- Create high-quality evaluation tasks for frontier models
- Scale up reinforcement learning (RL) environments
- Design creative reward functions for training
- Run large-scale RL experiments in collaboration with domain experts
