Forward Deployed Research Engineer
About the Role
This is a hands-on, end-to-end technical role on a small, high-caliber engineering team building infrastructure for reinforcement learning environments and AI evaluation. You will own urgent and ambiguous technical challenges for frontier AI labs and data vendors, turning repeated firefighting into reusable tooling that drives critical deployments forward.
What You'll Do
Diagnose and resolve ambiguous technical problems, owning deployment requests from triage to completion.
Clarify underspecified asks by asking the right questions to identify what actually needs to be done.
Build one-off tools and pipelines to solve urgent customer and partner problems under time pressure.
Coordinate with research and go-to-market teams to unblock deployments.
Balance speed and quality when customers need fast turnaround and the path is not fully specified.
Document recurring issues and convert repeated manual work into reusable tools and processes.
What We're Looking For
2 to 4 years of experience in applied research engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or a closely related hands-on techn
