Skills · Train models
Pretraining and scaling laws
Course coming soon
Data mixtures, compute budgets and the curves that predict loss before the big run.
Mentioned in 73 of 339 recorded research roles (22%) and 101 of 1,827 technical roles (6%), in this recorded board.
Learn it here
The course page has its planned syllabus and a sign-up, which tells us how many people want it.
Everything here that teaches it
Nothing on this site teaches it yet. It is listed so you can see how often labs ask for it, and the course in preparation above has a sign-up.
Also in Train models: How language models work, Post-training and fine-tuning, Reinforcement learning, RL environments and verifiers, Interpretability, Alignment research, Multimodal models.
Who asks for it
- Research scientists and engineers 73 of 339
- Fellowships, residencies and internships 3 of 32
- Applied AI and forward-deployed 0 of 326
- ML systems and infrastructure 4 of 102
- Machine learning engineers 3 of 143
- Software engineering at labs 18 of 885
Recorded roles that mention it
101 recorded postings mention it. Here are the newest 60 research, fellowship, applied and ML-systems roles; the rest are on the role pages linked above. Each title opens the lab's own posting.
- Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Mid-Training ↗
Cognition · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Staff Research Engineer (LLM Pre-Training) ↗
JetBrains (Junie, Mellum) · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Interpretability ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $315k to $560k base
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity) ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Pretraining ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required
- Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling - London ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineer, RL Engineering ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $500k to $850k base
- Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base
- Research Engineer/Research Scientist, Pre-training ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required · $350k to $850k base
- Research Scientist, Interpretability ↗
Anthropic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $850k base
- Applied Researcher, Audio ↗
Cartesia · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $200k to $350k base
- Research Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Language Modeling) ↗
Cartesia · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $200k to $350k base
- Member of Technical Staff, Pre-Training Data ↗
Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Member of Technical Staff, Training Performance Engineer ↗
Cohere · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Synthetic Data ↗
Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Senior Member of Technical Staff, Web Data ↗
Cohere · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Research Engineer, Cyber Gemini, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent
- Research Engineer, World Models, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Scientist, Gemini Vision, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Multilingual, Multicultural and Multimodal LLM, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Reasoning and Artificial General Intelligence, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Scientist, Robotics Pre-Training and Data Quality, DeepMind ↗
Google DeepMind · Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience
- Research Engineer / Scientist, Post-training & Reinforcement Learning - London ↗
H Company · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer, Data ↗
Liquid AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Member of Technical Staff - ML Scientist, Japanese Multimodal ↗
Liquid AI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- Member of Technical Staff, Inference & RL Systems ↗
Magic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $275k to $550k base
- Member of Technical Staff, Kernels ↗
Magic · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $275k to $550k base
- Member of Technical Staff, RL Research & Environments ↗
Magic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $275k to $550k base
- Research Engineer ↗
Magic · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $275k to $550k base
- AI Research Scientist —Generative AI for Materials Discovery ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- AI Research Scientist, CoreML - Monetization ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- AI Research Scientist, Pre-training Data - MSL FAIR ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · PhD required
- Research Engineer, Pre-training Data - MSL FAIR ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required
- Research Engineer, Privacy Evals - Meta Superintelligence Labs ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · Master's, PhD or equivalent
- Research Scientist, Multi-Modal Human Understanding ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent
- Visiting Scholar — Post Training & Research (Discovery AI Lab) ↗
Meta (Superintelligence Labs and FAIR) · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD required
- AI Scientist - Agentic Engineering ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated
- AI Scientist - Physics Models ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · Master's or PhD required
- Applied Science - Research Engineer (Robotics) ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Applied Scientist ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Applied Scientist (Internship) ↗
Mistral AI · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD preferred
- Applied Scientist (Internship in Paris or London) ↗
Mistral AI · Fellowships, residencies and internships · PhD preferred
- Applied Scientist, EMEA ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Applied Scientist, South Korea ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Lead Applied Scientist, South Korea ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · PhD preferred
- Research Engineer, Machine Learning ↗
Mistral AI · Research scientists and engineers · Master's, PhD or equivalent
- Agent Post-Training Research ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Agent Post-Training, Artifacts Research ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Agent Post-Training, Computer Use Research ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Agent Post-Training, Connectors Research ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Agent Post-Training, Context Research ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Health ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Research Engineer, Codex ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Agent Safety, Training and Evaluations ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $380k to $500k base
- Researcher, Alignment CoT Monitorability ↗
OpenAI · Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $295k to $500k base
- Training Performance Engineer ↗
OpenAI · ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $295k to $500k base
