Clera Verified 22h ago
Research Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States Remote
$150,000–$250,000 a yearPay$150,000–$250,000
TypeFull-time
Work settingRemote
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About the role
This is an on-site role based in San Francisco, CA (with a presence also in Singapore). Visa sponsorship is available. We're a fast-growing AI infrastructure company building the technical foundation for training and evaluating frontier AI agents. As a Research Engineer , you will work across agent training environments, benchmarks, and synthetic data pipelines — shaping how AI agents learn, improve, and are evaluated at scale.
What you'll bring
- 2–4 years of professional experience as a Research Engineer or in a comparable role delivering systems for AI agent training and evaluation.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
- Hands-on experience with benchmarks and evaluations for RL training, including reasoning about task realism, rubric reliability, environment usability, and trajectory quality.
- Experience building systems for creating, running, and evaluating AI agent training environments.
- Experience designing experiments and building metrics/analyses to diagnose model behavior, agent failure modes, and data quality.
- Proven ability to build infrastructure, tools, or pipelines in early-stage environments without fully prescribed roadmaps.
- Experience building internal research infrastructure or data pipelines.
- Experience designing metrics and validation workflows.
- Background in competitive programming, Olympiad mathematics/computing, academic research, or exceptionally strong independent project work.
- Comfort working and communicating clearly across time zones.