AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries of AI capabilities and curating high-quality, human-generated data.
AfterQuery is a research lab investigating the boundaries of AI capabilities and curating high-quality, human-generated data.
What they do: Applied research lab building human-curated datasets and training environments for foundation models
Founded / HQ: 2024; San Francisco, CA
Stage / Funding: Pre-Seed (Crunchbase lists Y Combinator as lead investor)
Team size: ~87 employees
Data quality and environment design for training and evaluating large language and multimodal foundation models.
2024
Artificial Intelligence / Data
Crunchbase lists a single Pre-Seed round led by Y Combinator; exact amount and date not disclosed in provided evidence.
“Y Combinator participation (lead investor)”
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About AfterQuery AfterQuery is helping push the frontier of LLMs and AI Agents through novel datasets and experimentation. We work on building the most complex infrastructure that powers frontier data creation for agentic and hard reasoning workflows. We work with all 5 of the leading AI labs and are becoming the go-to partner for data infrastructure for YC companies. We have a sharp hockey stick growth rate and are extremely talent-dense, with most of our founding team coming from top IB and quant firms.
About The Role As part of AfterQuery’s engineering team, you’ll have end-to-end ownership over projects that push the frontier of AI evaluation. You’ll work on a mix of research engineering (designing novel RL environments, agentic systems, evaluation harnesses) and platform engineering (building human-in-the-loop platforms, scaling data infrastructure, designing annotator workflows).
This is not a narrow role. One week you might prototype a new RL environment from a research paper, the next you’ll be deploying distributed experiments on Kubernetes, and the week after you’ll be improving the reliability of our Next.js dashboards or building a Kafka pipeline for annotator analytics.
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