Researcher, Evaluations

Epoch AI

Researcher evaluating frontier AI models on open-ended office tasks at Epoch AI. Curating benchmarks and assessing AI performance qualitatively and quantitatively.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $115,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Create and curate an evaluation suite. Find real-world tasks that serve as challenging tests for practical AI capabilities, and update the tasks over time as AI capabilities evolve. Devise rubrics for evaluating AI performance.
- Evaluate AI systems. Regularly evaluate new, notable AI models and products on the task suite. Update tasks and rubrics to reflect the changing landscape of AI capabilities.
- Communicate your research. Create public-facing reports, blog posts, and data visualizations with your observations. Ensure the evaluations feed into our other research topics and help keep our team informed.
- Conduct data analysis. Analyze evaluation results and compare models across tasks.
- Improve the process. You might automate parts of the workflow, and build out parts of the evaluation into standalone benchmarks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Analytical thinking. **You conduct experiments with rigor and care, making sure that findings are well-supported by evidence.
- Grounded, skeptical mentality. **You form your own well-reasoned view of what an AI system can do, distinguishing practical capabilities from hype.
- Comfort with AI agents and tools.** You have experience working with AI agents in the course of your own work, and are comfortable delegating tasks.
- Familiarity with AI benchmarks and evaluations.** You follow AI capabilities at least casually and have opinions on what benchmarks do and don’t tell us.
- Research and data-analysis experience,** including enough comfort with light coding to analyze your own results.
- Strong written communication skills:** You can convey nuanced observations clearly and precisely.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual salary between **$115,000 – $200,000 USD**, depending on location and experience.
- Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours.
- Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
- Generous paid time off (PTO), including no specific annual limit, with 30 days PTO per year protected, unlimited personal and sick leave, and 4 months paid parental leave for permanent staff with at least 12 months of tenure (prorated parental leave if less than 12 months).
- A flexible and generous expense policy for you to spend on equipment and a large range of productivity tools or learning/development opportunities, including unlimited spending on AI tools, subject to regulations and manager approval.
- Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences.
- Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more. All staff, independently of where they are based, have access to the office for at least 20 days each year.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data AnalysisAI EvaluationBenchmark DevelopmentExperimentationLight Coding

Soft Skills

Analytical ThinkingGrounded MentalitySkeptical Approach