Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

About the Role

This is a Research Engineer role focused on synthetic data, sitting within a roughly 15-person engineering team of Olympiad medalists and published researchers. You will design and build the pipelines that turn domain-specific workflows into scalable, high-quality training tasks for AI agents, directly expanding what the models can do.

What You'll Do

• Build end-to-end synthetic data pipelines that transform domain-specific workflows into realistic, structured, and challenging training tasks.

• Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create synthetic tasks for AI agents across professional and technical domains.

• Design task generation methods that produce diverse, realistic, and learnable outputs at scale.

• Build tooling to mutate, validate, and continuously improve synthetic tasks.

• Analyze model and agent performance on synthetic tasks to understand what they teach and where they fail.

• Develop metrics to quantify task diversity, realism, learnability, and overall quality.

What We're Looking For

• 2 to 4 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI research, with a focus on data pipelines, ML infrastructure, or synthetic data systems.

• Hands-on experience applying synthetic data research methods to build end-to-end data generation pipelines for AI/ML applications.

• Proficiency in Python and comfortable working in Linux environments with containerization tools such as Docker.

• Strong understanding of synthetic data quality criteria, including diversity, realism, and learnability, and awareness of its inherent limitations.

• Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or testing environments for AI agents or large language models.

• Proven ability to independently own and deliver technical projects end-to-end with minimal predefined requirements.

• Detail-oriented approach to spotting edge cases and subtle inconsistencies in algorithmically generated datasets.

• Familiarity with reinforcement learning training paradigms, agentic AI workflows, or LLM post-training pipelines is a plus.

• Experience creating synthetic tasks or evaluations across multiple distinct professional or technical domains is a plus.

• Comfortable thriving in unstructured, early-stage startup environments and collaborating across time zones.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Singapore.