Forward Deployed Research Engineer

The role

You will own technical deployment requests for AI labs and data vendors, from first triage to resolution. You will diagnose unclear technical problems, build tools and pipelines, and turn repeated work into reusable tools.

What you will 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.

Required qualifications

• 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.

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is available.

About the company

clera is an AI company focused on reinforcement learning environments, model evaluation, and post-training data. The company works with AI labs and data vendors.