Forward Deployed Research Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a small engineering team at an AI company focused on reinforcement learning environments, model evaluation, and post-training data. You will tackle urgent, ambiguous technical challenges for AI labs and data vendors, while turning repeated deployment work into reusable tools. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own technical deployment requests from initial triage through resolution. - Diagnose ambiguous technical problems and clarify what needs to be done. - Build tools and one-off pipelines to address urgent customer and partner needs. - Coordinate with research, go-to-market, and other internal teams to unblock deployments. - Balance speed and quality, escalating when correctness or security requires extra care. - Document recurring issues and convert manual work into reusable tools and processes. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Two to four years of experience in applied research engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role. - Research engineering experience alongside customer-facing deployment work, including ownership of requests from triage to completion. - Proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux, with strong debugging skills across code, data, and environments. - Experience with benchmarks and evaluations for reinforcement learning training data and AI agents, including assessing task realism, rubric reliability, and useful training trajectories. - Ability to build practical tools and pipelines, work directly with technical customers or vendors, and handle urgent production or deployment issues. - Strong independent judgment in ambiguous situations, clear communication across time zones, and experience in an early-stage startup environment. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $100,000 to $170,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in Singapore, Singapore.