# Member of Technical Staff - Research - Company: [Crucibl]() - Location: San Francisco, CA - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: August 5, 2026 ## Job description **Why Crucibl** Management consulting is a $400B industry built on selling intelligence-for-hire. The model is breaking - not slowly, but now. The biggest frontier in enterprise AI isn't better models. It's judgment at scale: taking the messy, ambiguous decisions that run 85% of the global economy and making them faster, crisper, and more defensible. Crucibl is building that. We're profitable, growing fast, and delivering for Fortune 500 clients. We raised a $10M seed from Tier 1 VCs - then kept growing on revenue. The client pipeline is full. We're scaling to meet it. **What You'll Do** **Push the Frontier of Judgment** * Research how frontier models reason through ambiguous, high-stakes business decisions - and where they fail * Design novel methods for reasoning, evaluation, and calibration that go beyond standard benchmarks * Translate open problems in reasoning, uncertainty, and multi-step decision-making into approaches we can test and ship **Build Evaluation That Matters** * Define what "good judgment" looks like for a model, and build the evaluation frameworks to measure it * Design experiments that reveal real failure modes, not just leaderboard scores * Turn findings into concrete recommendations for the product and applied teams **Partner with Founders** * Shape technical vision and roadmap alongside the founding team * Bring outside research thinking into a company solving a problem few labs are focused on **Set the Bar** * Define what rigorous, applied research looks like in an AI-first organization * Raise the bar for the team as it grows **Who You Are Must-Haves** * At least one undeniable signal of excellence - published research at a top venue, research role at a frontier lab, or a track record of novel technical contributions * Deep understanding of how LLMs reason, fail, and can be evaluated - this isn't a theoretical interest, it's core to the job * Strong fundamentals in ML, statistics, or NLP - we're too small for hand-holding on the technical side * Comfortable moving from open-ended research question to a testable hypothesis quickly **Strong Signal** * Experience designing evaluation frameworks or benchmarks for reasoning, decision-making, or agentic systems * Published or shipped work on uncertainty, calibration, multi-step reasoning, or LLM evaluation * Has operated in a high-growth, high-ambiguity environment * Thinks like an owner - big picture, not just your part **We're Not Looking For** * Researchers who need a clean, self-contained problem before starting - ambiguity is the job * Pure benchmark-chasers - we care about judgment that holds up with real clients, not just leaderboard gains * Researchers without product instincts - your work needs to change what we build and ship, not sit in a paper -- but we are open to publishing work! **Who You'll Work With** Our founders bring deep technology experience (Google-scale systems serving hundreds of millions of users) and domain expertise in high-stakes business decisions from top consulting and private equity firms. You'll be the connective tissue between these worlds, and between the company we are today and the company we're becoming. **Benefits & Perks** * *Zero to Outcome:* Seed stage means you shape the product, the culture, and the trajectory - not inherit them. * *See Your Work Matter:* No abstractions, no layers - you'll see exactly what you built and what it changed. * *The People Around You:* A small, elite team that will raise your game. We hire for exceptional, not just experienced. * *Meaningful Equity:* Every offer includes a comprehensive salary and equity package. * *Hybrid Schedule:* 3 days in-office with real flexibility around the rest. We care about output, not optics. * *Full Health Coverage:* Medical, dental, and vision. * *Daily Lunch & Snacks:* Fueled and focused, on us. **Work Authorization** Crucibl welcomes applications from candidates requiring visa sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility is determined during the interview process. *Crucibl is an equal-opportunity employer. We hire on merit and outcomes, and welcome applicants of every background.* ## Apply [Apply on Crucibl]() Canonical job page: