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Forward Deployed Research Engineer

HUD· Engineering & Research
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San Francisco, Singapore, Remote (Asia), Remote (North America)$105k - $180kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Applied Research Engineer responsible for owning implementation, diagnostics, and hands-on work with frontier AI labs and data vendors; focuses on rapid, ambiguous technical problems, RL environments, evals, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Own technical deployment requests from frontier AI labs, data vendors, and internal teams from triage to completion
  • Build RL environments and evals that satisfy the technical requirements and needs of frontier AI labs, sometimes under short timelines
  • Ask the right questions to clarify ambiguous asks and identify what actually needs to be done
  • Build tools and one-off pipelines to solve urgent customer or partner problems
  • Balance speed and quality in situations where customers need fast turnaround and the path is not fully specified

Qualifications

  • Experience building on benchmarks and evals - you can reason about task realism, rubric reliability, usable environments, and RL training trajectory
  • Core engineering experience, preferably in a forward deployed or customer success context
  • Strong debugging instincts across code, data, and environments
  • Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations without a fully prescribed roadmap
  • Strong judgment about when to move fast, when to escalate, and when correctness or security requires extra care
  • Comfort working directly with technical customers, vendors, or cross-functional internal teams

Skills

Required:Experience with benchmarks and evals for RLCore engineering experienceDebugging across code, data, and environmentsIndependent operation in ambiguous environmentsCustomer-facing communication

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • 100% covered medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
  • Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
  • Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
  • 401k with a 4% match
  • Perks including Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US) and health/wellness stipend (Singapore)
  • Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
  • Two top-floor offices in San Francisco and Singapore
  • Annual travel budget to visit either office
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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The platform for building RL environments. Train specialized agents, evaluate models, and deliver frontier‑grade post‑training data to labs.

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