Research Engineer, Synthetic Data (Pacific Time)
Pragmatike3 days ago
Remote, United States +9 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create synthetic training tasks for AI agents across professional and technical domains.
- Design methods for generating diverse, realistic, and learnable synthetic tasks.
- Build tooling and systems to mutate, validate, and improve synthetic tasks.
- Analyze model and agent performance to determine what tasks teach and where they fail.
- Develop metrics for synthetic task diversity, realism, learnability, and related qualities.
- Take synthetic data pipelines from early research through reliable systems in unstructured problem areas.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
- Experience with synthetic data research methods and a strong understanding of effective synthetic data and its limitations.
- Experience building synthetic data pipelines end to end, including without a fully prescribed roadmap.
- Experience with environments, evaluations, or benchmarks.
- Clear written and spoken English and comfort collaborating remotely across time zones.
- Strong attention to detail, first-principles reasoning about task design and failure modes, and comfort working in early-stage or unstructured environments are valued.
- Technical aptitude and learning potential are prioritized over a specific number of years of experience.
Benefits
- Full-time role starting ASAP.
- Onsite work is available in San Francisco or Singapore, with remote work available in Singapore or US Pacific time zones.
- Remote schedules should overlap approximately 70–80% with San Francisco or Singapore business hours; the exact schedule will be agreed during hiring.
Categories
Data EngineeringML Engineering
About Pragmatike
Pragmatike is a Paris-based IT services and recruiting firm connecting remote-first companies with software engineers and tech specialists worldwide. Founded in 2022, it places contractors or full-time hires and staffs teams to complete projects for startups and scaleups. The private partnership offers access to a large network of 50,000+ specialists across 60+ countries.