Applied AI Research Engineer

2 days, 9 hours ago
Full-time
Mid Level
Software Development
Appen

Appen

Appen is a global leader in providing high-quality data management services for AI development. With over 1 million crowd workers, Appen supports the world's top technology companies in enhancing their products and services. The company offers a divers...

IT Services
1001-5000
Founded 1996
$59M raised

Description

  • Build reinforcement-learning and agent environments, including task specifications, scoring, and evaluation.
  • Develop benchmarks and evaluation harnesses for model and data quality, including accuracy, robustness, safety, latency, and cost.
  • Build LLM pipelines and agentic systems for research, evaluation, and customer trials.
  • Run fine-tuning, adapter, and other model experiments to assess the impact of data and methods on model behavior.
  • Deploy local or self-hosted models for evaluation, inference, and automation workflows.
  • Document experiments, configurations, data, results, and limitations to ensure reproducibility.
  • Collaborate with GenAI Research and cross-functional stakeholders to convert technical work into reusable customer-facing assets.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years of professional engineering or relevant industry experience in AI/ML or software engineering.
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience building reliable, maintainable AI systems.
  • Hands-on experience building agentic systems, reinforcement-learning environments, LLM pipelines, or similar AI systems.
  • Experience building evaluation harnesses, benchmarks, or model-testing pipelines.
  • Ability to independently take technical ideas or research questions through to working solutions.
  • Strong understanding of experimentation, reproducibility, and technical documentation.
  • Experience developing synthetic-data generation systems or datasets (preferred).
  • Published technical research papers, benchmarks, or related research (preferred).
  • Experience with SWE-bench or similar software-engineering evaluation environments, or with local inference, open-weight models, or self-hosted model environments (preferred).

Benefits

  • Flexible ways of working based on team needs.
  • Tools, resources, and development opportunities to build capabilities over time.
  • Opportunity to work on AI challenges across industries and geographies.

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