Variance

Research Engineer, Evals

Variance
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8 months ago

Base Salary

$180k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build proprietary benchmarks and datasets for fraud, identity, and risk workflows.
  • Design and run offline and online evaluations against real customer tasks.
  • Define quality metrics including precision, calibration, consistency, abstention, and failure handling.
  • Analyze model and agent failures and translate them into improved evaluations, datasets, and training loops.
  • Build reusable evaluation tools and quality components across product workflows.
  • Partner with research, engineering, product, and design teams on rigorous experimentation.
  • Advance evaluation practices for regulated, adversarial, and high-consequence AI systems.

Requirements

  • Experience training, evaluating, or improving modern ML systems.
  • Strong programming skills and comfort with research-heavy codebases.
  • Experience building benchmarks, datasets, evaluation pipelines, or quality systems.
  • Familiarity with LLMs, agent systems, retrieval, post-training, or adjacent areas.
  • Ability to design clean experiments and draw reliable conclusions from noisy results.
  • Strong engineering judgment and a bias toward building.
  • Interest in fraud, risk, trust and safety, compliance, or other regulated and adversarial domains.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
  • Platinum-level medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Unlimited PTO, sick leave, and parental leave.
  • Up to $100 per month reimbursement for personal health and wellness expenses.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Fully in-person work in San Francisco.

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