# Member of Program Staff, Data at River AI Inc.

Member of Program Staff, Data at River AI Inc. in Palo Alto, CA. Paying $200k–$300k. Posted June 12, 2026.

- Company: River AI Inc.
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Pay: $200k–$300k
- Posted: 2026-06-12
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/riverai/jobs/4285512009
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/member-of-program-staff-data-river-ai-inc-qcmj3a

## Requirements

- Completed or in-progress Bachelors or higher degree, or equivalent professional experience.
- Extensive experience running large-scale data campaigns or post-training at frontier AI company or research institution.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
- Operational experience with hiring or managing human data labelers.
- Evidence of expertise / top of field in a non-technical domain, such as but not limited to: literature, philosophy, history, economics, sociology, psychology, political science.
- A highly collaborative mindset and a bias for action to push boundaries in a fast-paced environment.

## Description

At River, our mission is to create personal AI owned and shaped by each individual. To achieve this, we are rewriting the entire stack from scratch: personal hardware for local inference, bespoke training infrastructure, next-generation UIs, and frontier deep learning research.

### Who we are

We are scientists, engineers, and builders from the industry's top tech companies and AI labs. We bring a proven track record of scaling consumer systems for hundreds of millions of users and architecting the pre-training infrastructure behind today's frontier models.

### **About the Role**

We are looking for exceptional people to oversee our data efforts. Your main goal is to design and run data campaigns and evaluations for next-generation models and personalization systems. You will also play a significant role in crafting our training recipes and interfaces for tutors & users.

### **What You’ll Do**

- Build & oversee the data campaigns that feed training pipelines for next-generation agents and personalization systems. You will work closely with our research teams to figure out what data is needed.

- Create evaluations for general capabilities, model behavior, continual learning, personalization.

- Architect and deploy new clients & interfaces for collecting feedback from tutors and users, working closely with both product and research team members.

- Manage external partnerships with data labelers on a variety of campaigns.

### **Skills & QualificationsMinimum Qualifications:**

- Completed or in-progress Bachelors or higher degree, or equivalent professional experience.

- Extensive experience running large-scale data campaigns or post-training at frontier AI company or research institution.

- Exceptional oral and written communication skills.

- Operational experience with hiring or managing human data labelers.

- Evidence of expertise / top of field in a non-technical domain, such as but not limited to: literature, philosophy, history, economics, sociology, psychology, political science.

- A highly collaborative mindset and a bias for action to push boundaries in a fast-paced environment.

**Preferred Qualifications:** *(We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all of these)*

- BA, Masters, or Ph.D. in a humanities, social science, or STEM.

- Experience with managing external partnerships and contracts.

- Exceptional product judgment with the ability to reason backward from user needs, alongside a high degree of ownership to navigate ambiguity.

- Hands-on experience with LLM systems, including APIs, agents, tool calling, prompt iteration, eval frameworks, and inference constraints.

- Familiarity with modern deep learning algorithms including reinforcement learning, supervised fine-tuning.

### **Logistics & Benefits**

- **Location:** Palo Alto, California.

- **Compensation:** Depending on experience and skills the expected base pay is $200,000 - $300,000 USD per year, plus equity.

- **Benefits:** Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; unlimited PTO; and relocation assistance as needed.

- **Visa Sponsorship:** We sponsor visas and are committed to supporting the process for the right candidate.