# Research Scientist – Frontier Evaluations at AfterQuery

- Company: AfterQuery
- What the company does: AfterQuery captures how experts reason and turns real-world professional work into high-quality training data for frontier foundation models. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://afterquery.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $210K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-25
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/afterquery/a565ac3b-8cb6-4145-8d09-1e008203a457
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/afterquery-research-scientist-frontier-evaluations/

## About the role

AfterQuery is hiring Research Scientists to design and publish rigorous evaluations for frontier AI systems. The role spans agentic, coding, and safety evaluations, as well as expert-domain evaluations involving applied AI in healthcare, STEM, finance, and related fields. You will own evaluation development end to end and collaborate across disciplines to turn important capability gaps into rigorous public research.

## What they're looking for

- Strong record of publishing benchmarks or research papers
- Clear technical communication and strong scientific writing skills
- Commitment to experimental rigor, including baselines, ablations, statistical validity, and contamination controls
- Ability to take an ambiguous evaluation question from initial scoping through a reproducible public release
- Depth in agentic, coding, and safety evaluations or applied machine learning in an expert domain
- PhD in a related technical field

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