Clera

Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

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Singapore, SingaporeMid Level

Base Salary

$100k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build pipelines that transform domain-specific workflows into realistic, structured, and challenging synthetic training tasks.
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create tasks across professional and technical domains.
  • Design methods for generating diverse, realistic, and learnable tasks.
  • Develop tools to mutate, validate, and improve synthetic tasks.
  • Analyze model and agent performance to assess task effectiveness and identify failure modes.
  • Create metrics for task diversity, realism, learnability, and overall quality.
  • Own technical projects from conception through delivery in loosely defined problem spaces.

Requirements

  • At least two years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI research with a technical background.
  • Hands-on experience applying synthetic data methods to build end-to-end data-generation pipelines for AI or machine learning.
  • Proficiency in Python and Linux, plus containerization tools such as Docker.
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing environments for AI agents or large language models.
  • Understanding of synthetic data quality, evaluation metrics, and limitations backed by research or production work.
  • Experience building automated systems to generate, validate, mutate, or process structured data at scale.
  • Strong attention to detail, communication, and reasoning about task design, scoring, and edge cases.
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning, agent workflows, or LLM post-training is helpful.

Benefits

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

Categories

Data Engineering
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