Forward Deployed Researcher
AI summary of the role
The Forward Deployed Researcher partners directly with AI labs and enterprise customers to design and deliver AI evaluation, human feedback, and data collection engagements end to end.
What you’ll do
- Lead AI evaluation and data collection engagements from scoping through delivery
- Design evaluation methodologies, rubrics, quality frameworks, verifiers, and RL environments
- Partner with customer research and engineering teams on bespoke solutions
- Translate customer patterns and research insights into platform and product capabilities
What you’ll bring
- 3+ years in AI/ML research, research engineering, or applied ML
- Strong knowledge of LLM evaluation, data collection design, and human feedback
- Experience designing AI-assisted or model-in-the-loop workflows
- Track record delivering research or applied AI/ML projects with clear outcomes
Technologies
LLM evaluation · AI/ML · model-in-the-loop workflows · RL environments · AI-assisted workflows · verifiers · validation frameworks
About Prolific
Prolific connects AI teams and researchers with verified, fairly paid participants for human evaluations, RLHF data, and research-grade online studies.
Series A · 100–200 people
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