- Job title
- Research Engineer (General)
- Job location
- San Francisco / Singapore / Remote
- Job description
- ## **About HUD**
[HUD](https://www.hud.ai/) is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.
## **About the role**
_This is a general application for candidates who are unsure which research focus -_ [_QC Automation_](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hud/e6f9812e-dcfd-422b-b614-1d1273c16003)_,_ [_Benchmarks_](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hud/c5252f0e-fd1d-41cf-b803-b0ce1fe4cea1)_, or_ [_Synthetic Data_](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hud/44e356fa-801c-4dac-99f5-848d80a68500) _- they would be a fit for. We would love to meet you and figure it out together. However, if you already have a focus in mind, **please apply to only that application**._
We're looking for Research Engineers to build the technical foundation for training and evaluating frontier AI agents. You’ll build the systems for creating new environments, improve data quality, and translate real-world workflows into tasks and benchmarks.
## **Responsibilities**
- Build systems for creating, running, evaluating, and improving agent training environments
- Design experiments to understand model behavior, agent failure modes, and data quality issues
- Develop tools that help researchers, engineers, and data vendors create higher-quality tasks, trajectories, and feedback loops
- Work across the full lifecycle of agent training data - task design, environment setup, trajectory collection, evaluation, and validation
- Partner with external vendors to identify bottlenecks and improve the quality and throughput of HUD’s data engine
- Build metrics and analyses that help us understand whether our tasks, environments, and evals are actually useful for training frontier agents
## Experience
**You may be a good fit if you have:**
- Proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments
- Experience working on benchmarks and evals - you can reason about what makes a task realistic, a rubric reliable, an environment usable, and a trajectory useful for RL training
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to spot subtle inconsistencies in data, model behavior, or task design
- Experience building tools, pipelines, experiments, or infrastructure without a fully prescribed roadmap
- Early-stage startup experience with ability to work independently in fast-paced environments
**Strong candidates may also have:**
- Experience building internal tools, research infrastructure, or data pipelines
- Experience designing metrics and validation workflows
- A background in competitive programming, Olympiad medaling, research, or unusually strong independent project experience
- Thrive in unstructured problem spaces
- Strong communication skills for remote collaboration across time zones
_We prioritize technical aptitude and learning potential over years of experience. Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don't meet all criteria._
## **Team & company details**
- **Team Size** : ~15 people currently, mostly full-time in-person, but some remote.
- **Our team:** Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.
- **Company stage:** We have 8 figures in funding and high revenue growth. We’re scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.
## **Logistics**
- **Employment** : Full-time.
- **Location** : On-site in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- **Visa Sponsorship** : We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US.
- **Timeline** : Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.
## What we offer
- Competitive compensation based on experience and location
- 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA
- Lunch and dinner when you’re in the office
- Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
- Other perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits
- Unlimited\* access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc. \*_By unlimited, we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is._
Due to high volume, we may not actively respond to every application, but feel free to contact us at [[email removed]](mailto:[email removed]) or elsewhere if we missed your application!
