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Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality

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Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality in USA

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Lead the data quality team in building systems that evaluate tasks across RL environments, synthetic data, benchmarks, and domain-specific workflows.
  • Define data quality strategy through QC systems, standards, and experiments that grade agent outputs.
  • Develop methods for validating synthetic data at scale, including failure-mode analysis, task mutation checks, and trajectory auditing.
  • Partner with research engineers, domain experts, and data vendors to diagnose quality issues and improve data-generation workflows.
  • Build internal tools, dashboards, validation pipelines, and feedback loops that turn research insights into production systems.
  • Mentor research engineers and maintain high standards for technical rigor, clarity, and execution speed.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant engineering or research experience building systems for AI/ML data evaluation or data quality.
  • Demonstrated experience leading technical teams through ambiguous projects from definition to implementation and iteration.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
  • Experience with QC systems, evaluations, benchmarks, synthetic data pipelines, validation workflows, or model evaluation infrastructure.
  • Research-oriented understanding of AI evaluations and post-training beyond surface-level agent tooling projects.
  • Ability to design metrics, experiments, and QA/QC processes.
  • Strong written communication and ability to explain methodology to diverse audiences.
  • Experience working with subject-matter experts to convert domain judgment into scalable review or generation systems.
  • Early-stage startup experience and ability to work independently in fast-paced environments.

Benefits

  • Salary range is $150,000 to $180,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site role in San Francisco, California, USA; the team also has a presence in Singapore.

Salary: $150k - $180k/yr

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