Snorkel AI builds specialized training data, benchmarks, and evaluation environments that help frontier models and agents perform in high-stakes domains. Backed by Greylock, Lightspeed and GV.
About the role
Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- A research track record in evaluation. You’ve led or made substantial contributions to benchmarks, evaluation methods, or environments that researchers or model-development teams use
- Hands-on technical depth. You’re comfortable moving between research questions and implementation: building experiments, inspecting tasks and harnesses, debugging verifiers, and analyzing model behavior
- The ability to lead through research collaboration. You’ve helped other researchers make difficult technical decisions and bring work to completion
- Clear technical communication. Your papers, research artifacts, specifications, or reviews make complex ideas understandable and claims precise
More about this role
Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.
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Open Benchmarks Grants is Snorkel’s $30M commitment to fund and support researchers and independent builders developing new AI evaluations. We support the teams behind Terminal-Bench, OSWorld 2.0, and Senior SWE-bench, and run a Research Fellows program for PhD students and postdocs. The program funds work in areas including physical AI, scientific discovery, cybersecurity, safety, and alignment, and helps teams test and strengthen their benchmarks before public release.
- Shape our research bets in open benchmarks & evaluation. Identify gaps in how frontier AI is evaluated. Review proposals with Snorkel’s senior researchers, work with prospective collaborators to strengthen their ideas,...
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