# Research Engineer (General)

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 This is a general application for candidates who are unsure which research focus - QC Automation, Benchmarks, or Synthetic Data - they would be a fit for. We would love to meet you and figure it out together. However, if you already have a focus in mind, please apply to only that application. We're looking for Research Engineers to build the technical foundation for training and evaluating frontier AI agents. You’ll build the systems for creating new environments, improve data quality, and translate real-world workflows into tasks and benchmarks. Responsibilities Build systems for creating, running, evaluating, and improving agent training environments Design experiments to understand model behavior, agent failure mod

- **Id**: 741408
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hud-research-engineer-general>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **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**: 2026-04-24T19:13:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T10:40:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 201
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4894
- **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**: 100000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **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**: 201

## 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**: 1
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.1
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 201
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: seen:201, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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