Academic Research Collaborator for AI Model Training

Confidential • phoenix, az, phoenix, az • Posted June 30, 2026

Position Overview

Join a leading AI lab''s cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.

Overview

This role is designed for Professors and PhD students across all academic disciplines, including STEM (Machine Learning, Coding, Data Science, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics) and professional domains (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Law, Business). You will engage in AI model training and evaluation, focusing on writing and assessing MLOps tasks to generate high-quality training data for frontier AI systems.

Your responsibilities will include designing and validating challenging benchmark tasks aimed at diagnosing reasoning and problem-solving gaps in target models. The work will involve building robust, real-world tasks with executable Python tests and analyzing model behavior. Proficiency in Python is required.

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