Research Engineer, Synthetic Data
About the Role
This is a Research Engineer role focused on synthetic data, sitting within a roughly 15-person engineering team of Olympiad medalists and published researchers. You will design and build the pipelines that turn domain-specific workflows into scalable, high-quality training tasks for AI agents, directly expanding what the models can do.
What You'll Do
Build end-to-end synthetic data pipelines that transform domain-specific workflows into realistic, structured, and challenging training tasks.
Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create synthetic tasks for AI agents across professional and technical domains.
Design task generation methods that produce diverse, realistic, and learnable outputs at scale.
Build tooling to mutate, validate, and continuously improve synthetic tasks.
Analyze model and agent performance on synthetic tasks to understand what they teach and where they fail.
Develop metrics to quantify task diversity, realism, learnability, and overall quality.
What We're Looking For
2 to 4 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI research, with a focus on data pipelines, ML infrastructure, or synthetic data systems.
Hands-on experience applying synthetic data research methods to build end-to-end data generation pipelines for AI/ML applications.
Proficiency in Python and comfortable working in Linux environments with containerization tools such as Docker.
Strong understanding of synthetic data quality criteria, including diversity, realism, and learnability, and awareness of its inherent limitations.
Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing environments for AI agents or large language models.
Proven ability to independently own and deliver technical projects end-to-end with minimal predefined requirements.
Detail-oriented approach to spotting edge cases and subtle inconsistencies in algorithmically generated datasets.
Familiarity with reinforcement learning training paradigms, agentic AI workflows, or LLM post-training pipelines is a plus.
Experience creating synthetic tasks or evaluations across multiple distinct professional or technical domains is a plus.
Comfortable thriving in unstructured, early-stage startup environments and collaborating across time zones.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in Singapore.