HUD
Forward Deployed Research Engineer
San Francisco · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 days ago
PythonDockerLinuxAgentic AILogisticsResearchCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Our data buyers and sellers often have time-sensitive asks such as troubleshooting and running evals or cleaning data at scale.
- This work is broad and hands-on - the right fit is a strong generalist AI engineer who can move quickly and wants to work closely with frontier AI labs and data vendors.
Responsibilities
- Own technical deployment requests from frontier AI labs, data vendors, and internal teams from triage to completion
- Build tools and one-off pipelines to solve urgent customer or partner problems
- Document recurring issues and turn repeated manual work into reusable tools or processes
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
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations without a fully prescribed roadmap
- Experience in applied research engineering or forward-deployed engineering
- Experience handling urgent production, customer, or deployment issues
- Early-stage startup experience with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments
- You may be a good fit if you have:
Compensation
- Competitive compensation
Benefits
- 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)
- 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 (US employees)
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.
- Balance speed and quality in situations where customers need fast turnaround and the path is not fully specified
- Comfort working directly with technical customers, vendors, or cross-functional internal teams
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.
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