Clera

Research Engineer, Benchmarks

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3 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$100k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain benchmarks for evaluating AI agents on domain-specific tasks.
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts to translate real workflows into realistic tasks and evaluation criteria.
  • Build reliable infrastructure for running models and agents against benchmark tasks at scale.
  • Develop metrics and analyses for benchmark difficulty, reliability, and failure modes.
  • Validate benchmark results against real-world evaluations and user needs.
  • Write technical documentation and reports communicating benchmark methods and results.

Requirements

  • Two to four years of experience in research engineering, machine learning engineering, or a related technical role, including at least two years building or delivering AI benchmarks, evaluation infrastructure, or agent environments.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux for research or production infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating evaluations for AI agents or large language models.
  • Experience building reliable model or agent infrastructure and developing metrics, statistical analyses, or validation studies.
  • Ability to collaborate with subject-matter experts and analyze workflows across domains.
  • Strong technical writing, attention to detail, first-principles reasoning, and ability to work independently in a fast-paced startup.
  • Published research or technical writing on benchmarking, model evaluation, or failure modes is valued; reinforcement learning pipelines, data generation, and agent evaluation experience are also relevant.

Benefits

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

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AI Research
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