ML Researcher (Internship and Full-time)

Tilde Research

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San Francisco on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

Tilde Research is a moonshot AI lab advancing mechanistic interpretability, new architectures, and pretraining science. We build foundational understanding of models to advance the frontier of intelligence.


About the role:

As a ML Researcher, you will develop innovative techniques to deeply understand how large AI models work—and use those insights to make them better. You'll work on training, analyzing, and evaluating cutting-edge models, collaborating closely with a team of researchers and engineers to advance interpretability as a tool for improving performance and control.

What you might work on:

  • Designing, prototyping, and optimizing novel model architectures

  • Investigating why models or specific components behave the way they do—and how to improve them

  • Curating targeted datasets to elicit and instill specific behaviors or capabilities in models

  • Collaborating on papers, blog posts, and open-source tools to share insights with the broader community

You're a good fit if you:

  • Have experience in deep learning or related research areas

  • Have deep technical expertise in some subfield(s) of modern ML, e.g. architecture, optimizers, RL, learning dynamics, etc.. This can include through:

    • Strong publication record

    • Thoughtful technical blog posts

  • Have experience working with large-scale pre/post-training infrastructure for experimentation

  • Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing

  • Can come up with and evaluate research ideas

  • Are able to learn quickly

About this role

Summary

Develop and analyze AI models, improve architectures, and contribute to research publications.

Job title

ML Researcher (Internship and Full-time)

Experience level

research intern or entry level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Remote or onsite in San Francisco

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

deep learningmachine learningresearch experiencelarge-scale infrastructure

Preferred skills

publication recordtechnical blog postscollaborative skills

Specializations

deep learningmodel architecturesinterpretabilitypretraining
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

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Remote

San Francisco, CA, USA

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