Clera

Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality

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2 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$130k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team developing systems to evaluate large volumes of tasks across environments, datasets, benchmarks, and specialized workflows.
  • Define data quality strategy, quality-control systems, standards, and experiments for assessing agent outputs.
  • Develop scalable synthetic-data validation approaches, including failure-mode analysis, task mutation checks, and trajectory auditing.
  • Collaborate with research engineers, domain experts, and data vendors to diagnose quality issues and improve data generation.
  • Translate research findings into production tools, dashboards, validation pipelines, and feedback loops.
  • Establish standards for useful agent training data and mentor research engineers.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of research or engineering experience building AI or machine learning data evaluation and quality systems.
  • Experience leading technical teams or projects from problem definition through implementation and iteration.
  • Advanced proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
  • Strong background in AI evaluations, post-training, synthetic data validation, benchmarks, or related evaluation infrastructure.
  • Experience designing metrics, experiments, and quality processes and translating research insights into production systems and pipelines.
  • Ability to work with subject-matter experts to create scalable review or data-generation systems.
  • Clear written communication, careful attention to detail, sound judgment about training-data quality, and experience in an early-stage startup environment.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • The role is on-site in the United States.
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