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Machine Learning Research Expert

AfterQuery Contract Posted 3 weeks ago US, UK, EU, CA, AU, NZ

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AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We're hiring machine learning researchers as contractors to author and solve the analysis problems those evaluations run on, drawn from your own research: experiment design, ablations, evaluation and model behavior. This role is for researchers with hands-on ML research experience. We're not looking for ML engineers focused on deployment, data engineers or data annotators. Fully remote and async, with no fixed hours.

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  4. If AfterQuery accepts you, they invite you to matching projects.
  5. Remote — open to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus and Liechtenstein.
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