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Research Engineer, Judgment Systems

Research Engineer designs evaluations, studies model failures, and builds research loops to improve AI agents for high-stakes fraud detection and judgment tasks. Requires ML training experience, experimental rigor, and strong engineering skills in adversarial environments.

250k – 400kSan Francisco, CAML EngineeringOnsite

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Train, fine-tune, and improve models for fraud, scams, abuse, and other high-stakes judgment workflows
  • Own research threads focused on improving agent capability, reliability, and decision quality
  • Build proprietary benchmarks, datasets, and evals that reflect real customer workflows, regulatory constraints, and real failure modes
  • Design and run experiments across post-training, retrieval, tool use, planning, memory, and long-horizon agent behavior
  • Study where models break, why they break, and how to make them more robust
  • Prototype new training strategies, agent architectures, and evaluation methods, then turn the best ideas into production systems
  • Work closely with founders and engineering to translate research advances into deployed product capabilities
  • Push the boundary of what AI agents can do in regulated industries

Requirements

  • Care deeply about protecting people from fraud, scams, and abuse
  • Have strong opinions about model quality, evaluation, and experimental rigor
  • Want to work on core model and agent behavior
  • Excited to train, fine-tune, and improve models for hard real-world judgment tasks
  • Think in tight research loops: hypothesis, experiment, evaluation, failure analysis, iteration
  • Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the path is not obvious and the feedback loop is short
  • Motivated by the challenge of making AI systems work in adversarial, regulated, and high-consequence settings
  • Want to help define what trustworthy AI means in real-world use cases

Preferred Background

  • Experience training, fine-tuning, or evaluating modern ML systems
  • Strong programming skills and comfort working in research-heavy codebases
  • Familiarity with LLMs, agent systems, post-training, reinforcement learning, retrieval, or adjacent areas
  • Ability to design clean experiments and draw reliable conclusions from noisy results
  • Strong engineering judgment and a bias toward building
  • Interest in fraud, risk, trust and safety, compliance, or other regulated and adversarial domains

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity ($250,000 - $400,000)
  • Platinum-level medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Unlimited PTO, sick leave, and parental leave
  • Up to $100 per month in reimbursement for personal health and wellness expenses
  • 401(k) plan

Skills

Machine LearningLLMsFine-TuningReinforcement LearningRetrieval Augmented GenerationAgent SystemsPost-TrainingEvaluationBenchmarkingPython

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