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Their marketplace helps the people who create data get value for it, and gives AI labs trustworthy data to train on. It is already used by startups, Fortune 500 companies and frontier labs, and the company is backed by leading venture investors, including Y Combinator. They are scaling quickly to meet strong demand.\nWe are looking for a Research Engineer, Synthetic Data to build the synthetic data pipeline. You will turn domain-specific workflows into synthetic training tasks that are realistic enough to teach useful behaviour, structured enough to generate at scale, and difficult enough to expand model capabilities.\nThis is a hands-on research engineering seat, not a commercial or privacy-systems role. You will design how synthetic tasks are created, mutated and validated, and you will analyse what those tasks actually teach models and agents.\nThis is a full-time role, starting ASAP. Offices are in San Francisco and Singapore; remote candidates are welcome if their working hours can overlap about 70-80% with either San Francisco (US Pacific) or Singapore business hours. The exact daily schedule will be agreed during hiring.\nWhat You'll Do\nWork with subject-matter experts to create synthetic tasks for training AI agents across a range of professional and technical domains.\n\nDesign synthetic task-generation methods that produce diverse, realistic and learnable tasks.\n\nBuild systems and tooling to mutate, validate and improve synthetic tasks.\n\nAnalyse model and agent performance on synthetic tasks to understand what the tasks are teaching and where they fail.\n\nDevelop metrics to quantify and understand synthetic task diversity, realism, learnability and related qualities.\n\nTake synthetic data pipelines from early research through to reliable systems, including in areas where the roadmap is not fully prescribed.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nProficiency in Python, Docker and Linux environments.\n\nExperience with synthetic data research methods - please be ready to describe this in your application.\n\nA strong understanding of what “good synthetic data” means, and of its limitations.\n\nExperience building synthetic data pipelines end to end, including where there was no fully prescribed roadmap.\n\nExperience working on environments, evals or benchmarks.\n\nClear written and spoken English, and comfort collaborating remotely across time zones.\n\nStrong candidates may also be detail-oriented enough to catch subtle inconsistencies or edge cases in synthetic data; able to reason from first principles about task design, scoring and failure modes; and comfortable in unstructured problem spaces or early-stage environments.\n\nTechnical aptitude and learning potential matter more than years of experience. Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don't meet every point above.\n\nWhy This Role Matters for You\nBuild the synthetic data pipeline: You will design the tasks and systems that generate training data at scale, not only run experiments on someone else's pipeline.\n\nResearch that has to work in production: Turn messy, domain-specific workflows into tasks that are realistic, measurable and usable for training agents.\n\nSee what the data actually teaches: Analyse model and agent performance, and improve the tasks when they fail.\n\nHigh ownership, unstructured problems: You will build without a fully prescribed roadmap, from method design through tooling and metrics.\n\nSan Francisco, Singapore, or remote: Work on-site in San Francisco or Singapore, or remotely, with hours that overlap about 70-80% with either US Pacific or Singapore business hours. The exact daily schedule will be agreed during hiring.\n\nPragmatike is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants without discrimination. We recruit on behalf of our clients and prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. We are committed to a fair and inclusive hiring process. We process your personal data solely for recruitment purposes, in accordance with applicable privacy laws, and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect your information. 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