Clera
Forward Deployed Research Engineer
- Location
- Singapore, SG
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11 November 2026 (4 days ago)
Checked 3 days agoApplications go to the employer, never to RoleSprint
About this role
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.
Work location
- Singapore, SG
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Published 11 November 2026, last checked 3 days ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.