Cartesia · 2 months ago
Researcher, Post Training
*HQ - San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$180K/yr - $350K/yrCartesia is a pioneering company in AI, focused on building interactive intelligence that can process vast streams of data. The Researcher on the Post-Training team will develop methods and systems for enhancing multimodal models' adaptability and alignment with human intent, directly influencing how these models learn and improve.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Real TimeSoftware
Responsibilities
Own research initiatives to improve the alignment and capabilities of multimodal models
Develop new post-training methods and evaluation frameworks to measure model improvement
Partner closely with research, product, and platform teams to define best practices for creating specialized models
Implement, debug, and scale experimental systems to ensure reliability and reproducibility across training runs
Translate research findings into production-ready systems that enhance model reasoning, consistency, and human alignment
Qualification
Required
Deep knowledge of preference optimization and alignment methods, including RLHF and related approaches
Experience designing evaluations and metrics for generative or multimodal models
Strong engineering and debugging skills, with experience building or scaling complex ML systems
Ability to trace and diagnose complex behaviors in model performance across the training and evaluation pipeline
Preferred
Experience with multimodal model training (e.g., text, audio, or vision-language models)
Contributions to alignment research or open-source projects related to model evaluation or fine-tuning
Background in designing or implementing human-in-the-loop evaluation systems
Company
Cartesia
Cartesia provides real-time multimodal intelligence for all devices.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$86MKey Investors
Kleiner PerkinsIndex Ventures
2025-03-11Series A· $64M
2024-12-12Seed· $22M
Leadership Team
Karan Goel
Founder / CEO
Arjun Desai
Co-Founder
Recent News
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