# Forward Deployed Research Engineer at HUD

- Company: HUD
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.hud.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hud/4d61c93c-d17e-4ea1-9e17-85ca66a8db79
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hud-forward-deployed-research-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering & Research