Research Engineer, Synthetic Data

About the role

Clera is looking for a Research Engineer to build synthetic data systems that turn specialized workflows into realistic, scalable training tasks for AI agents. You will work with an engineering team to develop task generation, validation and evaluation methods that help improve model capabilities. The position is on-site in Singapore.

Key responsibilities

• Build pipelines that transform domain-specific workflows into structured and challenging synthetic training tasks.
• Collaborate with subject-matter experts to create tasks across professional and technical domains.
• Develop methods for generating diverse, realistic and learnable tasks.
• Create tooling to mutate, validate and improve synthetic tasks.
• Analyze model and agent performance to identify what tasks teach and where they fail.
• Develop metrics for task diversity, realism, learnability and quality.

Required profile

• At least 2 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering or AI research, building and delivering data pipelines, ML infrastructure or synthetic data systems.
• Technical education or background, with hands-on experience developing end-to-end synthetic data pipelines for AI or machine learning applications.
• Experience evaluating synthetic data quality, including diversity, realism, learnability and limitations.
• Experience building evaluation frameworks, benchmarks or testing environments for AI agents or large language models.
• Ability to deliver technical projects independently with minimal predefined requirements, and to spot subtle data inconsistencies and edge cases.
• Strong reasoning about task design, scoring and failure modes; familiarity with reinforcement learning, agent workflows or LLM post-training is useful.
• Clear communication skills for collaboration across time zones.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Python and Linux development.
• Containerization tools such as Docker.

What we offer

• Base salary of $100,000 to $170,000 USD annually.
• Visa sponsorship available.