Summer 2026

ML Researcher – Intern and Full-time

Tilde Research

Tilde Research

1-10 employees

Full-stack AI interpretability and control solutions

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

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Category
AI & Machine Learning (1)
Required Skills
Neural Networks
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Requirements
  • Have experience in deep learning or related research areas
  • Have deep technical expertise in some subfield(s) of modern ML, e.g. architecture, optimizers, RL, learning dynamics, etc. This can include through: Strong publication record; Thoughtful technical blog posts
  • Have experience working with large-scale pre/post-training infrastructure for experimentation
  • Communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
  • Can come up with and evaluate research ideas
  • Are able to learn quickly
Responsibilities
  • Designing, prototyping, and optimizing novel model architectures
  • Investigating why models or specific components behave the way they do—and how to improve them
  • Curating targeted datasets to elicit and instill specific behaviors or capabilities in models
  • Collaborating on papers, blog posts, and open-source tools to share insights with the broader community

Tilde Research provides full-stack interpretability tools for AI systems, including general interpreter models and control mechanisms to guide how features flow through inference pipelines. These tools help human experts collaborate with AI by aligning model decisions with human input and existing fine-tuning methods. The approach focuses on deployment-time control and orchestration, adding a layer of insight that sits between raw prompts and model outputs. The goal is safer, more understandable AI that can handle complex tasks within standard deployment workflows.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California

Founded

2024

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • SSAEs enable unsupervised interpretability and concept steering from embeddings.
  • Khosla Ventures and OpenAI/Anthropic backers provide funding and expertise.
  • Moonshot lab advances mechanistic interpretability across full AI stack.

What critics are saying

  • Anthropic's tracing thoughts outpaces Tilde's circuit analyses in 6-12 months.
  • Tilde.ai's 30-year multilingual dominance confuses branding in 3-6 months.
  • EU AI Act Phase 2 commoditizes proprietary tools in 12-18 months.

What makes Tilde Research unique

  • Activault reduces activation storage costs 4-8x using S3 for petabyte-scale datasets.
  • Telescope project traces feature emergence to guide model architecture decisions.
  • Full-stack tools include interpreter models and control for feature orchestration.

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