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Applied AI Research Engineer

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Remote · IndiaSalary not disclosedfull-timeAppen Careers

As an Applied Research Engineer, you’ll build practical AI research assets that support Frontier lab initiatives and customer engagements. This is an implementation-focused role for someone who enjoys turning research concepts into working systems.

Responsibilities

  • Build reinforcement learning and agent environments for real customer and Frontier lab use cases, including task specifications, scoring, and evaluation.
  • Develop benchmarks and evaluation harnesses to measure model and data quality across areas such as accuracy, robustness, safety, latency, and cost.
  • Build LLM pipelines and agentic systems that support research, evaluation, and customer trials.
  • Run fine-tuning, adapter, and other model experiments to evaluate how data and methods influence model behavior.
  • Deploy local or self-hosted models for evaluation, inference, and automation workflows.
  • Document experiments, configurations, data, results, and known limitations so other engineers can reproduce and build on your work.
  • Partner with the GenAI
  • Research team and cross-functional stakeholders to turn technical work into reusable assets for customer engagements.
  • What You Bring
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.

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    Work format
    Remote
    Seniority
    Mid
    Posted
    2 Oct 2026
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