Research Fellowship - Mechanistic Interpretability is open at Vmax in SF. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $172K. Posted on May 20, 2026, and still on Vmax’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
LLMs are fantastically powerful and there is a rapidly growing corpus of work devoted to understanding their internal representations and computations. We use the tools of mechanistic interpretability to enhance reinforcement learning by generating intrinsic rewards as a supplement or alternative to downstream human-generated verifiers. This 3 to 6 month fellowship is for PhD students or equivalent early-career…
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