Forward Deployed Research Scientist

Job summary

Responsibilities

Alignerr is Labelbox's human data organization — we produce the training data that frontier AI labs use to build their most capable models. Our Forward Deployed Research Team sits at the intersection of research science and client delivery, embedding research capability directly into the…

• Engage directly with frontier lab research teams. You will be in the room during client scoping meetings — not as support staff, but as a technical peer.

What they're looking for

• Required
• MS or PhD in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• Hands-on experience fine-tuning large language models (open-weight models such as Llama, Mistral, Qwen, or similar).
• Strong understanding of LLM training pipelines — pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, RLHF/DPO, and how data quality and composition affect each stage.
• Experience designing and executing experiments with rigor — hypothesis formation, controlled comparisons, statistical analysis of results.

Tech stack

• Databricks