Clera

Forward Deployed Research Engineer

Singapore
Salary
$100,000 - $170,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Singapore
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 4 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a small engineering team at an early-stage AI infrastructure company focused on reinforcement learning and AI evaluation. You will tackle urgent, ambiguous technical challenges for AI research organizations and data partners, helping unblock deployments and turn recurring problems into reusable tools.

What You'll Do

  • Diagnose ambiguous technical problems and clarify what needs to be done.
  • Own technical deployment requests from triage through completion for external partners and internal teams.
  • Build tools and one-off pipelines to solve urgent customer and partner problems.
  • Coordinate with research and go-to-market teams to unblock deployments.
  • Balance speed and quality when requirements are unclear and turnaround is urgent.
  • Document recurring issues and convert manual work into reusable tools and processes.

What We're Looking For

  • Two to four years of experience in applied research engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or a similar hands-on technical role.
  • A technical educational background and strong generalist AI engineering skills.
  • Proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux environments.
  • Experience with benchmarks and evaluations for AI agents and reinforcement learning training data, including sound judgment about task realism, rubric reliability, and useful trajectories.
  • Research engineering experience alongside deployment work, with a record of owning technical requests from triage to completion.
  • Strong debugging skills across code, data, and environments, plus experience building tools or pipelines for urgent problems.
  • Comfort working directly with technical customers, vendors, and cross-functional teams, including during production or deployment issues.
  • Ability to work independently amid ambiguity, exercise good judgment around speed, correctness, and security, and communicate effectively across time zones.
  • Experience in an early-stage startup and a habit of producing careful, original technical work.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $100,000 to $170,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in Singapore, Singapore.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Docker · Linux

Rare in Clera's other 182 open postings.

Standard for solutions / sales engineering roles

Python

Common in solutions / sales engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 181 open in Engineering. 115 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (87 of 181), TypeScript (86 of 181), React (74 of 181), Python (70 of 181), Machine Learning (43 of 181), Supabase (37 of 181), PostgreSQL (35 of 181)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 3 October 2026: a posting for this role in Singapore was taken down and the role was posted again.

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