Overview
About AfterQuery AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it. Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. We are YC's fastest unicorn, valued at $3.2 billion. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI. Why Apply Massive Opportunity: We are YC's fastest unicorn valued at $3.2 billion and we're not slowing
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Full Job Description
About AfterQuery
AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development. We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.
Our customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. We are YC's fastest unicorn, valued at $3.2 billion. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.
Why Apply
Massive Opportunity: We are YC's fastest unicorn valued at $3.2 billion and we're not slowing down.
Founding Impact: You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.
Equity & Growth: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.
Strong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley — work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.
Overview
Your job is to prove that our data works. You will design and run training experiments that isolate the impact of our datasets on model behavior. This includes SFT and RL-based post-training, where you’ll measure how different data sources shift capability, generalization, and alignment. Working closely with partner labs, you will turn our datasets into clear, defensible evidence: this data → this improvement → under these conditions. This is experimental, high-leverage work.
Responsibilities
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Run controlled SFT and RL experiments to measure the impact of our datasets on model performance.
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Help build public evals and new data types that push the frontier.
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Publish external-facing research, blog posts, and technical reports.
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Work with internal SPLs to iterate on data quality based on your results.
Required Qualifications
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Strong familiarity with LLM training and evaluation methodologies.
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Ability to design lightweight experiments, move fast, and extract actionable insights from messy results.
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Comfort working across domains (you'll touch finance, software engineering, policy, and more).
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A bias toward building over theorizing.
Preferred Qualifications
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Great candidates are undergrad research or master's research (but haven't done a phd).
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Genuine obsession with how data structure, selection, and quality drive model behavior.
Company Benefits (For Eligible Employees):
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Health Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
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401(k) with Employer Match
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Daily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend
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Monthly Wellness Stipend
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Commute Covered
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.
We comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the position. We reserve the right to modify this job description as business needs change.
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