Research Engineer, Benchmarks
- Remote (anywhere)
- Full-time
- Software engineering
- $100K–$170K / year
- Posted recently
You’ll apply on Clera’s own site.
About the Role
Join a small, technical team at an early-stage AI evaluation company building benchmarks for frontier AI agents. You will own the design and implementation of rigorous, domain-specific evaluations that help research teams and customers understand real-world agent performance.
What You’ll Do
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Design, implement, and maintain benchmarks for evaluating AI agents on domain-specific tasks.
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Work with subject-matter experts to translate real workflows into realistic tasks and evaluation criteria.
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Build reliable infrastructure for running models and agents against benchmark tasks at scale.
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Develop metrics and analyses to assess benchmark difficulty, reliability, and failure modes.
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Validate how benchmark results relate to real-world evaluations and user needs.
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Write clear technical documentation and reports communicating benchmark methods and results.
What We’re Looking For
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Two to four years of experience in research engineering, machine learning engineering, or a related technical role, including at least two years building or delivering AI benchmarks, evaluation infrastructure, or agent environments.
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Strong proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux for research or production infrastructure.
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Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and operating evaluations for AI agents or large language models.
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Experience building infrastructure to run models or agents reliably, and developing metrics, statistical analyses, or validation studies.
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Ability to collaborate with subject-matter experts and analyze workflows across different domains to create useful evaluation tasks.
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Strong technical writing, attention to detail, first-principles reasoning, and comfort working independently in a fast-paced startup.
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Published research or technical writing on benchmarking, model evaluation, or failure modes is valued. Reinforcement learning pipelines, data generation, and agent evaluation experience are also relevant.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $100,000 to $170,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in Singapore, Singapore.