Research Engineer, Environments

Mercor Alabaster

$120K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in creating and shipping environments for data evaluations
  • Strong skills in full-stack engineering including infrastructure and app development
  • Proven track record of initiative-driven work with a focus on execution
  • Inquisitive mindset with a passion for understanding model behavior
  • Attention to detail and systems-level thinking for high-quality simulation outputs

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deploy models for data extraction and classification
  • Create automated processes for refining tasks based on data insights
  • Deliver and implement data solutions for client projects
  • Shape the future of enterprise capabilities through innovative evaluations
  • Gain in-depth knowledge of enterprise operations via evaluation building
  • Design comprehensive environments that incorporate real data and workflows
  • Enhance production processes to increase efficiency and maintain quality

Benefits

  • Semi-annual performance bonuses
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Relocation bonus of up to $15,000
  • $10,000 housing bonus for proximity to the office
  • $1,500 monthly meal stipend
  • Free Equinox gym membership
  • $200 monthly reimbursement for laundry expenses
  • $200 monthly wellness reimbursement
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
Full Job Description
About the Role

You'll work with large enterprises to capture their data and transform it into high-fidelity RL environments for capability evaluations and training datasets for frontier labs. We focus on pushing the frontier of world-building, verifier engineering, and more alongside our partners.

Your goal will be to automate the process of building evals for real work in the economy.

What You'll Do
  • Ship models for workflow extraction, classification, and grading.
  • Engineer autonomous task refinement processes which distill data taste into pipelines.
  • Deliver data to customers and deploy into real engagements.
  • Help define the future of agentic transformation for enterprises around the world.
  • Deeply learn about the intricacies of enterprises through building evaluations for all aspects of work.
  • Build end-to-end environments for labs & enterprises by platformizing sandbox app clones, load real data into the sandboxes, build prompts from real workflows, and write verifiers leveraging enterprise expertise & golden outputs.
  • Systematize the production of environments to scale throughput while maintaining high-quality worlds and verifiers.
What We're Looking For
  • Prior experience shipping environments - you've contributed to an OSS framework, built environments at previous companies, or worked on agentic evaluations.
  • Strong full-stack engineering skills - you'll be responsible for everything from infrastructure to app code to analytics
  • Bias to action - this team is focused on shipping evals, not just philosophizing about them.
  • Curiosity - being biased towards understanding and digging deep into model behavior and actually looking at the data.
  • Sweat the details that make a simulation indistinguishable from the real thing and have systems-level thinking skills that allow you to scale up quality.
Nice to Have
  • Experience with Temporal, Modal, or similar orchestration/compute services
  • Experience with synthetic data generation for frontier models.Past work auditing and scrutinizing industry-standard evaluations
Benefits
  • Semi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance

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