Senior Research Engineer - Experimental Engineering

22 hours, 32 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization that provides unbiased ratings and reviews for over 9,000 products and services. With a focus on creating a fairer, safer, and healthier world, they conduct evidence-based product testing, inve...

Media
251-1K
Founded 1936
$8M raised

Description

  • Lead exploratory spikes, proof-of-concept work, and early-stage prototypes end-to-end.
  • Identify strategic opportunities in emerging technologies, especially AI/ML, and turn them into actionable prototypes.
  • Serve as a technical leader for AskCR and own architectural decisions for retrieval, evaluation, and orchestration.
  • Collaborate on technical planning, architecture, and implementation for AskCR.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams across Digital Product, Product Testing, User Research, Data Engineering, and Advocacy.
  • Document experiments and synthesize research outputs to maximize organizational impact.
  • Mentor engineers and help raise the technical bar across the team.
  • Promote a culture of curiosity, experimentation, rapid learning, and discovery.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Deep experience as a full-stack software engineer with additional interest in applied research, especially in AI/ML.
  • Strong Python experience, particularly with FastAPI.
  • Experience with frontend frameworks, ideally React and React Native.
  • Experience with AI orchestration.
  • Ability to solve vague problems by framing the problem, creating a plan, and building a working prototype independently.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity and iterating quickly on early ideas to test feasibility and viability.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining experimental findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience designing and building innovative prototypes from the ground up.
  • Experience mentoring other engineers or otherwise multiplying team output.
  • Experience building and shipping applied AI products to consumers, including data pipelines, model fine-tuning, and AI tool evaluation (preferred).
  • Background in research engineering, open source contributions, or self-directed programming projects that demonstrate curiosity and problem-solving (preferred).
  • Ability to make senior technical direction calls, including when not to pursue a project.
  • Practical understanding or curiosity about consumer rights, consumer advocacy, product ethics, and responsible AI.

Benefits

  • Medical benefits start on the first day of employment, including behavioral health coverage and family planning.
  • Generous 401(k) match.
  • Remote full-time opportunity.
  • Hybrid work available for candidates local to the New York or Washington, D.C. offices.
  • Competitive, market-informed compensation with location-based salary ranges.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodations available during the application and hiring process.

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