Forward Deployed Research Engineer
Core
Implement RL training data infrastructure and evaluation pipelines for frontier AI agents, serving frontier labs and data vendors.
Role type
Applied Research Engineer (Forward Deployed)
Builds
RL training data infrastructure, evaluation pipelines, and troubleshooting tools for AI agents
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Reinforcement Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Debugging code/data/environments, building one-off pipelines, diagnosing ambiguous technical problems, operating independently in ambiguous situations, balancing speed and quality, reasoning about RL benchmarks and evals
Preferred skills
Applied research engineering, forward-deployed engineering, handling urgent production issues, early-stage startup experience
Technologies
RL training data infrastructure, evaluation pipelines
Responsibilities
Own technical deployment requests from frontier AI labs and vendors from triage to completion, build tools and pipelines to solve urgent customer problems, coordinate with research and GTM teams to unblock deployments, document recurring issues and create reusable tools
Seniority
Individual Contributor, hands-on implementation
