Forward Deployed Research Engineer (Visa Sponsorship - Singapore)

Visa sponsorship available. A small engineering team at an early-stage AI company that builds reinforcement learning environments, model evaluations, and post-training data. The work involves solving urgent, loosely defined technical problems for AI labs and data vendors, and turning repeated deployment tasks into reusable tooling.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of technical deployment requests from first triage through to resolution.
• Investigate ambiguous technical problems and define clearly what needs to be done.
• Build tools and one-off pipelines to meet urgent customer and partner needs.
• Work with research, go-to-market, and other internal teams to unblock deployments.
• Judge when to move fast and when to slow down and escalate for correctness or security.
• Document recurring issues and convert manual work into reusable tools and processes.

What you need

• Two to four years of applied research engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role.
• Experience combining research engineering with customer-facing deployment work, including owning requests end to end.
• 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 or AI agents, including judging task realism, rubric reliability, and the usefulness of training trajectories.
• Ability to 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 a startup environment.

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