Clera

Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

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21 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeMid Level

Base Salary

$100k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build pipelines that transform domain-specific workflows into structured synthetic training tasks.
  • Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create tasks across professional and technical domains.
  • Develop methods for generating diverse, realistic, and learnable tasks.
  • Create tooling to mutate, validate, and improve synthetic tasks.
  • Analyze model and agent performance to identify task strengths and failure areas.
  • Develop metrics for task diversity, realism, learnability, and quality.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI research building and delivering data pipelines, ML infrastructure, or synthetic data systems.
  • Technical education or background with hands-on experience developing end-to-end synthetic data pipelines for AI or machine learning applications.
  • Proficiency in Python, Linux development, and containerization tools such as Docker.
  • Experience evaluating synthetic data quality, including diversity, realism, learnability, and limitations.
  • Experience building evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing environments for AI agents or large language models.
  • Ability to independently deliver technical projects with minimal predefined requirements and identify subtle data inconsistencies and edge cases.
  • Strong reasoning about task design, scoring, and failure modes; familiarity with reinforcement learning, agent workflows, or LLM post-training is useful.
  • Clear communication skills for collaboration across time zones.

Benefits

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

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AI ResearchData Engineering
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