Senior Research Engineer - Safety Tooling and Data

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Senior Research Engineer in our Safety team, you will play a key role in helping develop safer, more secure, and more reliable models. Your primary focus will be on building tools to enable easy data synthesis, analysis, and management, for complex combinations of real and synthetic data that…

• Design and implement robust data pipeline tooling that enables frequent, low-friction data generation and annotation
• Create cohesive data infrastructure that supports continuous parallel operation with model experimentation
• Establish standardized processes for data validation, analysis, and improvement of data both training and evaluation
• Collaborate with the ML modeling team to align data capabilities with experimental needs
• Maintain opinionated, well-documented solutions that become team standards

What they're looking for

• Extremely strong software engineering skills.
• Strong statistical skills and experience evaluating scientific experiments related to data collection and model performance.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) and Big Data Analytics (e.g. BigQuery, SQL)
• Demonstrated ability to own complex technical projects from conception to deployment
• Opinionated approach to technical architecture with ability to make principled decisions

Tech stack

• Python
• PyTorch
• BigQuery
• SQL