Research Engineer

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Research Engineer focused on developing automated systems for AI training data verification. Aiding a YC-backed startup in addressing AI training data quality challenges.

Posted 6/29/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $140,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify data quality issues including inconsistencies, formatting problems, and ingestion challenges
Perform initial manual data quality review to deeply understand failure modes
Build systems to automate quality checks at scale using rule-based and AI-driven approaches
Design hybrid systems that balance automation with human-in-the-loop review where appropriate
Continuously improve verification methods as the data landscape and AI tooling evolve

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deeply technical, with a strong learning slope and the ability to ramp quickly in a fast-moving field
Background in AI/ML engineering, or software engineering at an AI-focused company with visible data ingestion and processing experience
Ability to reason about likely data quality problems from first principles
Comfortable owning ambiguous, open-ended problems end to end
Comfortable working in person, full-time, in a San Francisco office
Bonus: experience working with noisy or unstructured data, or judgment on when to use automation versus human-in-the-loop review

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Identify data quality issues including inconsistencies, formatting problems, and ingestion challenges
Perform initial manual data quality review to deeply understand failure modes
Build systems to automate quality checks at scale using rule-based and AI-driven approaches
Design hybrid systems that balance automation with human-in-the-loop review where appropriate
Continuously improve verification methods as the data landscape and AI tooling evolve 🎯 Requirements
Deeply technical, with a strong learning slope and the ability to ramp quickly in a fast-moving field
Background in AI/ML engineering, or software engineering at an AI-focused company with visible data ingestion and processing experience
Ability to reason about likely data quality problems from first principles
Comfortable owning ambiguous, open-ended problems end to end
Comfortable working in person, full-time, in a San Francisco office
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Hard Skills & Tools

Data Quality Issues IdentificationRule-Based AutomationAI-Driven ApproachesData ProcessingVerification Methods Improvement

Soft Skills

AdaptabilityOwnership of Ambiguous Problems