Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an engineering team at an early-stage AI company building infrastructure for training and evaluating AI agents. You will develop synthetic data pipelines and methods that turn real-world professional workflows into useful training tasks, helping improve AI capabilities across technical and professional domains.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Build pipelines that generate realistic, structured, and challenging synthetic training tasks from domain-specific workflows.

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

• Design methods and tools to generate, mutate, validate, and improve synthetic tasks.

• Analyze agent performance to understand what tasks teach and where models fail.

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

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Two to four years of relevant experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or AI research.

• Hands-on experience applying synthetic data methods to build end-to-end data generation pipelines for AI or machine learning applications.

• Proficiency in Python, Linux, and containerization tools such as Docker.

• Experience with synthetic data quality criteria, evaluation metrics, and the limitations of synthetic data.

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

• A track record of independently delivering technical projects and building automated systems to generate, validate, or process structured data at scale.

• Strong attention to detail, first-principles reasoning, and clear communication for collaboration across time zones.

• Familiarity with reinforcement learning, agentic AI workflows, or LLM post-training is useful.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Compensation is USD 100,000 to USD 170,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

LOCATION

On-site in Singapore, Singapore.