Clera

Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

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18 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level

Base Salary

$100k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build pipelines that generate realistic, structured, and challenging synthetic training tasks from domain-specific workflows.
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create tasks across professional and technical domains.
  • Design tools and methods to generate, mutate, validate, and improve synthetic tasks.
  • Analyze agent performance to identify what tasks teach and where models fail.
  • Develop metrics for task diversity, realism, learnability, and overall quality.

Requirements

  • Two to four years of relevant experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI research.
  • Hands-on experience applying synthetic data methods to build end-to-end data generation pipelines for AI or machine learning applications.
  • Proficiency in Python, Linux, and containerization tools such as Docker.
  • Experience with synthetic data quality criteria, evaluation metrics, and synthetic data limitations.
  • Experience designing or maintaining evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing environments for AI agents or large language models.
  • Track record of independently delivering technical projects and building automated systems to generate, validate, or process structured data at scale.
  • Strong attention to detail, first-principles reasoning, and clear communication for collaboration across time zones.
  • Familiarity with reinforcement learning, agentic AI workflows, or LLM post-training is useful.

Benefits

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