Member of Technical Staff, Frontier AI

Core team $600K - $2M/yr compensation Required Skills -------------------

Research Signal Judgment ML-Oriented Data Design Ops-to-Research Translation RL Environments ### About micro1

micro1 is the leading AI data lab for training frontier models and evaluating AI agents. Experts contribute their diverse subject matter knowledge across domains such as finance, healthcare, STEM engineering, and more. micro1 transforms that real-world expertise into high-quality training data, evaluations, and feedback loops that improve how AI systems learn, reason, and perform. Our platform identifies and vets top talent through an AI recruiter, enabling high-quality expert contributions at scale. We aim to enable 1 billion people to do meaningful work by applying their expertise to AI. As our global expert network grows, micro1 is building the human intelligence layer for frontier AI.

Job Title

Member of Technical Staff, Frontier AI

Job Type

Full time

Location

Remote

The Role

We’re hiring a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) to act as a technical owner operating at the intersection of research, data, and real-world AI systems. This is a hands-on role focused on improving model and system performance through rigorous evaluation, failure analysis, and iterative development.

You’ll work closely with researchers, domain experts, and operators to ensure that experimental work produces clean, defensible research signal—and that this signal translates into meaningful improvements in deployed systems.

What You’ll Do

* Own research and evaluation initiatives end-to-end: problem framing, data design, quality calibration, and signal validation.

* Design ML-oriented data systems, including task definitions, annotation schemas, rubrics, incentives, and pipelines optimized for downstream model performance.

* Analyze model and system failures to identify root causes, edge cases, and oppo