Research Engineer, Benchmarks

On-site
CompanyClera
LocationSingapore
CategorySoftware Engineering
DepartmentEngineering
Seniority-
WorkplaceOn-site
Posted2026-09-26
Viaashby

Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a hands-on research engineering role focused on designing and owning high-quality benchmarks that evaluate frontier AI agents on realistic, domain-specific workflows. You will sit within a small, highly technical team and play a critical part in ensuring evaluations are rigorous, credible, and trusted by leading AI labs and customers.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Design, implement, and own the quality of internal benchmarks for evaluating frontier agents on domain-specific tasks.
  • Partner with subject-matter experts to define realistic workflows and translate them into benchmark tasks and evaluation criteria.
  • Build and operate reliable infrastructure to run models and agents against benchmark tasks at scale.
  • Develop metrics and statistical analyses that measure benchmark difficulty, reliability, and failure modes.
  • Validate that benchmark performance correlates with real-world evaluations, customer needs, and frontier lab expectations.
  • Write clear technical documentation and benchmark reports for research and engineering audiences.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • 2 to 4 years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or research roles, with a focused track record in AI benchmarks or evaluation infrastructure.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and running benchmarks or evaluation environments for AI agents or large language models.
  • Experience building infrastructure to reliably run AI models or agents against benchmark or evaluation tasks.
  • Ability to analyze and model workflows across diverse technical or business domains to support task design.
  • Sharp attention to detail with a habit of spotting subtle inconsistencies and edge cases.
  • Comfort reasoning from first principles about task design, scoring, and failure modes.
  • Strong written communication skills; experience producing technical documentation or benchmark reports.
  • Ability to thrive in unstructured problem spaces at an early-stage startup.
  • Bonus: experience with reinforcement learning pipelines, data generation, or RL agent evaluation; published work on AI benchmarking or model evaluation.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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

LOCATION

On-site in Singapore.