Clera

Research Engineer, Benchmarks

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3 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain benchmarks for evaluating AI agents on domain-specific tasks.
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts to translate real workflows into benchmark tasks and evaluation criteria.
  • Build and operate infrastructure for running models and agents against tasks at scale.
  • Develop metrics and analyses to assess benchmark difficulty, reliability, and failure modes.
  • Validate benchmark results against real-world performance and technical user needs.
  • Write documentation and reports for research and engineering audiences.

Requirements

  • Two to four years of experience in research engineering, machine learning engineering, or a related technical role, including at least two years building AI benchmarks, evaluation infrastructure, or agent environments.
  • Strong Python skills and practical experience with Docker and Linux.
  • Experience designing, implementing, and running benchmarks or evaluation environments for AI agents or large language models.
  • Experience collaborating with subject-matter experts and analyzing workflows across technical or business domains.
  • Experience developing metrics, statistical analyses, or validation studies for evaluations.
  • Strong technical writing, attention to detail, and ability to work independently in an early-stage environment.
  • A technical educational background.
  • Experience with reinforcement learning pipelines, published evaluation work, or widely used benchmarks is preferred.

Benefits

  • Salary range of USD 150,000 to 250,000 annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site role in Singapore, Singapore.
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