Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We’re looking for an Applied Research Engineer to own implementation. Our data buyers and sellers often have time-sensitive asks such as troubleshooting and running evals or cleaning data at scale. You’ll take the lead on diagnosing ambiguous technical problems and resolving them. This work is broad and hands-on - the right fit is a strong generalist AI engineer who can move quickly and wants to work closely with frontier AI labs and data vendors.
What they're looking for
- Core engineering experience, preferably in a forward deployed or customer success context
- Experience working on benchmarks and evals - you can reason about what makes a task realistic, a rubric reliable, an environment usable, and a trajectory useful for RL training
- Strong debugging instincts across code, data, and environments
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous situations without a fully prescribed roadmap
- Strong judgment about when to move fast, when to escalate, and when correctness or security requires extra care
- Comfort working directly with technical customers, vendors, or cross-functional internal teams
More about this role
HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.
We’re looking for an Applied Research Engineer to own implementation. Our data buyers and sellers often have time-sensitive asks such as troubleshooting and running evals or cleaning data at scale. You’ll take the lead on diagnosing ambiguous technical problems and resolving them. This work is broad and hands-on - the right fit is a strong generalist AI engineer who can move quickly and wants to work closely with frontier AI labs and data vendors.
Own technical deployment requests from frontier AI labs, data vendors, and internal teams from triage to completion
Ask the right questions to clarify ambiguous asks and identify what actually needs to be done
Build tools and one-off pipelines to solve urgent customer or partner problems
Coordinate with research and GTM teams to unblock deployments
Balance speed and quality in situations where customers need fast turnaround and the path is...
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