Post-training researchers
Your researcher writes and grades RLHF, SFT, and DPO data inside your lab. They follow your rubrics and tools.
Vetted PhD and master's-level researchers for RLHF, SFT, DPO, evals, red-teaming, and coding agents.
Working full-time inside your lab, directed by your team.
Lifetime replacement · 97% retention · 325+ companies
Updated September 15, 2026: researcher matching, working-hour overlap, and pricing are scoped to each lab brief.
Educational backgrounds considered for your research brief
Domain expertise
Researchers come from a range of academic and technical backgrounds, including computer science, mathematics, physics, economics, linguistics, law, and other domains relevant to post-training and evaluation work. We assess each candidate’s degree, publication history, and domain work against the specific role.
Talent examples
Filter by the work your lab needs. The profiles illustrate the kinds of roles in scope.
Bogotá, CO Mathematics PhD · AI trainer
Buenos Aires, AR Chemistry PhD · Safety evaluator
Santiago, CL ML engineer · Coding agents
Quito, EC Computational linguist · Annotation
CDMX, MX Physics PhD · Reasoning evaluator
Santiago, CL Economics expert · Model evaluator
São Paulo, BR Data engineer · Coding agents
Quito, EC Law expert · Safety and alignment
Illustrative examples of research roles and backgrounds in scope.
What they do
They work full-time inside your lab, directed by your team, using the tools, process, and hours you agree.
Your researcher writes and grades RLHF, SFT, and DPO data inside your lab. They follow your rubrics and tools.
Your researcher runs model evals, red teams weak points, and checks annotation quality for safety and alignment.
Your researcher builds RL environments and benchmarks for coding agents, reasoning, and domain work.
Opus recruits and vets researchers against your lab’s specific brief. You meet the few who fit the field and the work.
We assess each candidate’s degree, publication history, and domain work against the field and the work your lab needs.
Each search includes standard vetting across skills, English, communication, accent clarity, references, role fit, culture fit, and drive. Your team interviews the shortlist and makes the hiring decision.
We assess each candidate’s degree, publication history, and domain work against your brief. Then you interview the shortlist and test candidates the way your lab tests anyone.
One monthly rate covers placement, payroll, benefits, and labor compliance. You direct the research inside your lab; Opus handles employment administration and the replacement guarantee under your service agreement.
Why Latin America
Pricing, working hours, and domain background are scoped to your brief.
Pricing depends on seniority and responsibilities. Request a quote scoped to your specific brief.
Working-hour overlap with your team is confirmed for each candidate individually.
Each candidate's degree, publication history, and domain work are evaluated against your specific brief.
Questions
Tell us the work and the field. We build the short list.