Member of Technical Staff, Research

About the Company

Abundant is building the NVIDIA of training data. As AI models move beyond human supervision toward RL and Learning from Experience, the need to scale data is becoming the primary bottleneck for AGI and physical intelligence. Our founding team includes experts from Waymo, Google, Mercor, and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Drive foundational research and execution to discover generalizable ideas that advance model reasoning and intelligence at scale.
• Own the full research-to-production lifecycle, ensuring rapid deployment of work in live systems.
• Partner with advanced AI research teams to design and iterate on high-impact datasets and large-scale benchmarking efforts.
• Focus on critical alignment, safety, and defining optimal reward signals.
• Autonomously identify, scope, and manage long-running research projects critical to scaling data.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on data pipelines, internal tooling, and high-performance deep learning implementations.

Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, NLP, or a related field.
• World-class publication record (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
• Proven experience shipping research directly to production and live systems.
• Expertise in advanced post-training, distillation, and high-stakes evaluation methodologies.
• Experience with large-scale agent systems, orchestration frameworks, and distributed execution.
• Strategic perspective on the societal and safety impacts of general-purpose AI.
• Experience advising on or shaping governmental policy related to AI safety and governance.

Benefits

• Base salary ranging from $200,000 to $500,000+
• Sizable performance bonus tied to project and company milestones
• Meaningful early-stage equity grant
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO