# Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality

About the Role Lead the data quality team at an early-stage AI company building infrastructure for reinforcement learning and model evaluation. You will shape how training data is assessed and improved, helping research teams create more reliable and useful AI agents. What You'll Do Lead development of systems that evaluate tasks across reinforcement learning environments, synthetic data, benchmarks, and domain-specific workflows. Set data quality strategy, establish standards, and design experiments to assess agent outputs. Develop scalable methods for validating synthetic data, including failure analysis, task mutation checks, and trajectory audits. Work with research engineers, domain experts, and data vendors to diagnose quality issues and improve data generation. Turn research insights into production tools, dashboards, validation pipelines, and feedback loops. Mentor research engineers and promote technical rigor, clear communication, and strong execution. What We're Looking For At least 5 years of research or engineering experience focused on AI/ML data evaluation or data quality systems. Experience leading technical projects or teams through ambiguous problem definit

- **Id**: 3882865
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-lead-research-engineer-data-quality-14>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T17:09:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:20:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2040
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 225000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 225000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:41:15Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 30
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.338
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:0, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 225000
- **Is top pay**: no

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