Senior Research Engineer - Safety Tooling and Data

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 is used in both model training and evaluation.

What You Will Do

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.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role combines expertise in software engineering, statistics, and data science. If any of these topics sound interesting to you, we encourage you to apply.

Requirements

• 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, TensorFlow, JAX).
• Demonstrated ability to own complex technical projects from conception to deployment
• Opinionated approach to technical architecture with ability to make principled decisions
• Understanding of ML data requirements and the intersection of data engineering with modeling workflows

Benefits

• Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in your local currency for lunch.
• Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health.
• RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme.
• 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent.
• Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit.
• Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching.
• 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days!)
• Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite.
• $500 home office stipend to set up your workspace properly.