Research Scientist - Human-AI Systems San Francisco, CA; Hybrid

At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data.

We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI  AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production‑ready systems.

We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!

We’re looking for a Research Scientist to advance how high‑quality data and environments for AI agents are created. You’ll build and optimize pipelines that combine real‑world data, automated generation, and human expert input. Working with domain experts, academic partners, customers, and our product and engineering teams, you’ll scale these pipelines to target frontier model performance gaps and expand data and environment diversity.

Your work will amplify human knowledge and judgement, enabling experts to create and refine data and agentic environments that strengthens Snorkel’s position as the frontier data lab.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to advance frontier AI through data and environment creation and enjoys turning research into reusable, scalable systems.

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• Design, implement, and optimize reusable pipelines that combine AI capabilities with expert judgment to accelerate data and agentic environment creation.
• Design and run rigorous experiments to validate proof‑of‑concept approaches, measure their impact on data quality, pipeline efficiency, and model performance, and communicate findings.
• Partner with engineering, data operation, domain experts, and customers to turn research prototypes into reliable production workflows.
• Work directly with domain experts to design and test workflows that help them author, review, and refine data and environments.
• Work cross‑functionally with data operations, product, and engineering to surface research findings that inform the company roadmap.
• Stay at the frontier of research in data and agentic environment creation and bring best practices into Snorkel’s workflows.
• Represent Snorkel’s research externally through publications, blog posts, conference talks, and customer engagements that advance the conversation around data‑centric AI.

• Strong research background in AI, machine learning, NLP, LLMs, or related fields, with experience developing and…