Clera

Forward Deployed Research Engineer

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4 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose and resolve ambiguous technical problems from triage through completion.
  • Own deployment requests from frontier AI labs, data vendors, and internal teams end-to-end.
  • Build tools and one-off pipelines to address urgent customer and partner problems.
  • Coordinate with research and go-to-market teams to unblock deployments.
  • Document recurring issues and convert repeated manual work into reusable tools or processes.
  • Balance rapid customer turnaround with implementation quality.

Requirements

  • 2 to 4 years of experience in applied research engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or a closely related hands-on technical role.
  • Proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
  • Experience with benchmarks and evaluations, including judgment about task realism, rubric reliability, and trajectory quality for reinforcement learning training.
  • Strong debugging ability across code, data, and environments.
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguous situations and handle urgent production, customer, or deployment issues.
  • Comfort working directly with technical customers, vendors, and cross-functional internal teams.
  • Strong communication skills across time zones.
  • Early-stage startup experience and the ability to move quickly without sacrificing quality.
  • Careful, original technical work with sound judgment about when correctness or security requires additional care.

Benefits

  • On-site work in Singapore.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.

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