# Founding Research Engineer at Raindrop

- Company: Raindrop
- What the company does: Trace every run. Auto-fix silent failures. Simulate before shipping. Raindrop helps you detect agent issues and prevent them from happening. Backed by Lightspeed and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.raindrop.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply by: 2026-12-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Raindrop/3d2512f7-bfbf-47c6-8765-cad90cd52e1d?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/raindrop-founding-research-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for a founding Research Engineer to study how AI agents behave in production. You’ll join an early team, set the research agenda, and publish what we learn. Set Raindrop’s research agenda and run the experiments behind it. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You make complex ideas clear through strong written and communication skills
- Care about sharing your research through publications, open-source work, or public write-ups
- Deep expertise in an area such as interpretability, evals, AI safety, anomaly detection, or representation learning
- Good judgment about which experiments are worth running and when a result is real
- You ship experiments and build prototypes
- Use and build AI agents and tools

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/raindrop-founding-research-engineer/