# Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality

About HUD HUD 's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. We want data to be valuable for the people who create it and trustworthy for the labs that train on it. Our team is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers and operators building the economy that shapes what AI will become. Backed by $16M from top VCs and YC (W25), our marketplace and platform are used by startups, Fortune 500 companies and frontier labs. About the role We’re looking for a Lead Research Engineer, Data Quality to own how HUD measures, improves, and scales the quality of training data for frontier agents. You’ll lead the data quality team in building the systems that evaluate thousands of tasks across RL environments, synthetic data, benchmarks, and domain-specific workflows. Responsibilities Lead HUD’s data quality strategy including building QC systems, defining and enforcing quality standards, and designing experiments to grade agent outputs Develop new methods for validating synthetic data at scale, such as failure-mode analysis, task mutation checks, and trajectory auditing Partner with research engineers, domain experts, and data vendors to diagnose quality issu

- **Id**: 741390
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hud-lead-research-engineer-data-quality>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Singapore
- **Countries**: US, SG
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-28T22:46:10Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T10:40:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 106
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4803
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: AI Training Data & Annotation, Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms

## Company

- **Id**: 678875
- **Name**: HUD
- **Domain**: hud.so
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hud-3>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 10
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 295000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 295000

## Technologies

- **ChatGPT** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 106

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T12:44:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 32; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 32 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 3
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.259
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 106
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:106, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 295000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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