Clera

Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

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4 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level

Base Salary

$100k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable pipelines that transform professional workflows into structured synthetic training tasks.
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create tasks for AI agents across professional and technical domains.
  • Design methods for generating diverse, realistic, and learnable tasks.
  • Develop tools to mutate, validate, improve, and process synthetic tasks and structured datasets at scale.
  • Analyze model and agent performance, including strengths, limitations, and failure modes.
  • Create metrics and evaluation frameworks for task diversity, realism, learnability, and overall quality.

Requirements

  • At least two years of relevant experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI research with a technical background.
  • Hands-on experience applying synthetic data methods and delivering end-to-end data generation pipelines for AI or machine learning applications.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience working in Linux environments with containerization tools such as Docker.
  • Experience with synthetic data quality criteria, evaluation metrics, and synthetic data limitations.
  • Experience building or maintaining evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing environments for AI agents or large language models.
  • Experience automating the generation, validation, mutation, or processing of structured datasets at scale.
  • Ability to independently deliver technical projects in loosely defined problem spaces with attention to edge cases and data quality.
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning, agent workflows, or LLM post-training is useful.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $100,000 to $170,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site work in Singapore, Singapore.
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