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Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

San Francisco🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build synthetic data pipelines to create realistic, structured training tasks for frontier AI agents across professional and technical domains.

Role type

Research Engineer (Synthetic Data)

Builds

Synthetic data pipelines, task generation systems, and evaluation tooling for AI agents.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Synthetic Data

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Docker, Linux, synthetic data research methods, end-to-end pipeline building, environment/eval/benchmark design

Preferred skills

First-principles reasoning, edge case identification, unstructured problem solving, independent work in fast-paced environments

Technologies

Python, Docker, Linux

Responsibilities

Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create synthetic tasks; Design synthetic task generation methods; Build systems to mutate, validate, and improve synthetic tasks; Analyze model performance on synthetic tasks; Develop metrics for task diversity, realism, and learnability.

Seniority

Individual Contributor, early-stage startup

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