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Research Engineer (General)

San Francisco🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-24 → 2026-09-28

Core

Build the technical foundation for training and evaluating frontier AI agents by creating environments, improving data quality, and translating real-world workflows into tasks and benchmarks.

Role type

Research Engineer (General)

Builds

Systems for creating, running, evaluating, and improving agent training environments; tools for researchers and data vendors to create higher-quality tasks and feedback loops.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning / Frontier AI Agents

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Docker, Linux, benchmark design, experiment design, data quality analysis, tool building, pipeline development, independent problem solving

Preferred skills

internal tool building, research infrastructure design, metrics and validation workflow design, competitive programming, Olympiad experience, research publications

Technologies

Python, Docker, Linux

Responsibilities

Build systems for creating, running, evaluating, and improving agent training environments; Design experiments to understand model behavior and data quality issues; Develop tools to help create higher-quality tasks and feedback loops; Work across the full lifecycle of agent training data; Partner with external vendors to improve data engine quality; Build metrics and analyses to validate task and environment usefulness

Seniority

Individual Contributor, early-stage startup

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