# Research Scientist at idler

- Company: idler
- What the company does: Push the frontier of your model. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://idler.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/idler/3a8b02ec-c567-4f75-bf73-ec763e06d6eb
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/idler-research-scientist/

## About the role

As a Research Scientist at idler, you'll own measuring and improving how models learn from our tasks. The job is to maximize learning signal we produce per unit time. You'll draw on your own experience and collaborate with researchers at the frontier to validate our data quality, identify where improvements are needed, and create new datasets. To succeed, you'll need to have extensive experience doing this work in production at a frontier lab.

## What they're looking for

- 1+ years of experience doing RL in production at a frontier lab
- Track record of post-training an LLM end to end
- Desire to drive the research roadmap and implementation on a fast-moving team
- Deep curiosity about how machines learn from data and how to extract the maximum learning signal from our tasks

Tags: Engineering