Clera

Forward Deployed Research Engineer

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18 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$100k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose ambiguous technical problems, clarify requirements, and determine practical solutions.
  • Own deployment requests from triage through completion for external partners and internal teams.
  • Build tools and one-off pipelines for urgent customer and partner needs.
  • Collaborate with research and go-to-market teams to unblock deployments.
  • Debug issues across code, data, and technical environments while balancing speed and quality.
  • Document recurring problems and convert manual work into reusable tools and processes.

Requirements

  • Two to four years of experience in applied research engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or a closely related hands-on technical role.
  • Experience combining research engineering with forward-deployed or customer-facing engineering work.
  • Proficiency with Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
  • Experience developing benchmarks and evaluations for reinforcement learning training data and AI agents, including judgment about task realism, rubric reliability, and useful training trajectories.
  • Experience owning technical deployments, building urgent tools or pipelines, and working directly with technical customers, vendors, or cross-functional teams.
  • Strong debugging, communication, and independent problem-solving skills, including experience handling urgent production or deployment issues.
  • Comfort working in an early-stage startup and making careful decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving situations.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site role based in Singapore, Singapore.

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