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ML Research Engineer — Inference & GPU Kernels

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Posted Oct 3, 2026 · ✓ Still open — checked 5 hours ago

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Type
Contract
Location
Remote
Background
PhD
Skills
Machine Learning
Platform
Afterquery — 226 open jobs
Typical pay at Afterquery
$40–150/hour · median $88 (77 jobs on our site)
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We're building a research cohort of senior domain experts in ML inference and GPU kernel engineering — spanning inference serving systems, kernel optimization, and large-model deployment infrastructure — to help evaluate how frontier AI models reason about hard, real-world expert-level problems. This is research-and-evaluation work, not production engineering: you'll be defining what "correct" and "excellent" look like on problems you already know deeply. Domain: Machine Learning / AI Experience: 6–10 years Education: PhD/Doctorate, or Master's with a strong research record Candidates who meet the requirements and provide the requested materials will be prioritized for review. As part of this process, we conduct thorough background checks. Please apply only if you meet these requirements — candidates who meet fewer than 70% of the stated qualifications may be flagged for misrepresenting their professional experience, which could affect eligibility for future project staffing.

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AfterQuery is a Y Combinator-backed company that produces expert data for frontier AI labs. It hires professionals and specialists to build hard evaluation problems, write gold-standard answers and review model reasoning.