HUD
Research Engineer (General)
San Francisco · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 88 days ago
PythonDockerLinuxData EngineeringAgentic AILogisticsResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Build systems for creating, running, evaluating, and improving agent training environments
- Design experiments to understand model behavior, agent failure modes, and data quality issues
- Develop tools that help researchers, engineers, and data vendors create higher-quality tasks, trajectories, and feedback loops
- Work across the full lifecycle of agent training data - task design, environment setup, trajectory collection, evaluation, and validation
- Partner with external vendors to identify bottlenecks and improve the quality and throughput of HUD's data engine
- Build metrics and analyses that help us understand whether our tasks, environments, and evals are actually useful for training frontier agents
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to spot subtle inconsistencies in data, model behavior, or task design
- Experience building tools, pipelines, experiments, or infrastructure without a fully prescribed roadmap
- Experience building internal tools, research infrastructure, or data pipelines
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments
- Experience working on benchmarks and evals - you can reason about what makes a task realistic, a rubric reliable, an environment usable, and a trajectory useful for RL training
- Early-stage startup experience with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments
- Experience designing metrics and validation workflows
- You may be a good fit if you have:
Compensation
- Competitive compensation based on experience and location
Benefits
- 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA
- Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year's Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
- Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits
Company info
- We have 8 figures in funding and high revenue growth.
- We're scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.
- Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US.
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