Forward Deployed Research Engineer

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Remote (Asia), Remote (North America), 70–80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zonesFull-Time
Salary105,000 - 180,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Required Skills
Debugging

Requirements

  • Have core engineering experience, preferably in a forward-deployed or customer-success context.
  • Have experience building on benchmarks and evals, including reasoning about realistic tasks, reliable rubrics, usable environments, and useful trajectories for RL training.
  • Bring strong debugging instincts across code, data, and environments.
  • Demonstrate the ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations without a fully prescribed roadmap.
  • Use sound judgment about when to move quickly, escalate, or take extra care with correctness or security.
  • Be comfortable working directly with technical customers, vendors, or cross-functional internal teams.
  • Strong candidates may have applied research engineering or forward-deployed engineering experience.
  • Strong candidates may have experience handling urgent production, customer, or deployment issues.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical deployment requests from frontier AI labs, data vendors, and internal teams from triage to completion.
  • Build RL environments and evals that meet the technical requirements and needs of frontier AI labs.
  • Clarify ambiguous requests by asking questions and identifying what needs to be done.
  • Build tools and one-off pipelines to solve urgent customer or partner problems.
  • Balance speed and quality when customers need fast turnaround and the path is not fully specified.
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