Member of Technical Staff, Research (Intern)
Abundant, San Francisco
The role
IMPORTANT: in the application form, please specify what term you would like to begin your internship (winter/summer/fall)
As a Member of Technical Staff, you will work directly with Abundant's founding team to architect the next generation of model reasoning and intelligence. You will lead at the absolute frontier where research and execution collide, co-designing strategies alongside top-tier researchers from AI labs to push SOTA boundaries. This is a role for a extremely strong engineers who are already contributing frontier research.
What you will do
- Drive Foundational Research & Execution: Architect and execute a core research agenda to discover simple, generalizable ideas that advance model reasoning and intelligence at scale. This includes owning the full research-to-production lifecycle and ensuring rapid deployment of your work in live systems.
- Model Alignment & Data Strategy: Partner with the world's most advanced AI research teams to design, engineer, and iterate on high-impact datasets and large-scale benchmarking efforts that shape how frontier models behave, specifically focusing on critical alignment, safety, and defining optimal reward signals.