AI Benchmarking Research Engineer - Frontier Agents

Clera; Singapore; On-site; SGD 190,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship available

Job summary

Clera seeks a research/ML engineer to design and implement rigorous, domain-specific benchmarks evaluating frontier AI agents on realistic workflows. You will work with a small, highly technical team to deliver evaluations trusted by AI labs and enterprise customers.

The role focuses on building benchmarks, infrastructure, and metrics while collaborating with domain experts to translate complex workflows into evaluation tasks and delivering thorough benchmark reports.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of experience in research engineering or ML engineering, with a focus on AI benchmarks, evaluation infrastructure, or agent environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Docker, and Linux for building research or production infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience designing and running benchmarks or evaluation environments for AI agents or large language models.
• Experience building infrastructure to reliably run AI models or agents against evaluation tasks at scale.
• Experience developing metrics or validation studies to assess benchmark difficulty, reliability, and real-world correlation.
• Ability to collaborate with domain experts and translate complex workflows into evaluation criteria.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-quality internal benchmarks for evaluating frontier agents on domain-specific tasks.
• Partner with subject-matter experts to define realistic workflows and translate them into well-scoped evaluation tasks.
• Build and operate reliable infrastructure to run models and agents against benchmark tasks at scale.
• Develop metrics and statistical analyses that measure benchmark difficulty, reliability, and failure modes.
• Validate that benchmark performance correlates with real-world evaluations and customer needs.
• Write clear technical documentation and benchmark reports for research and engineering audiences.

Skills

Research engineering

ML engineering

Benchmark design

Collaboration

Technical documentation

Tools

Python

Docker

Linux

Job description

Clera seeks a research/ML engineer to design and implement rigorous, domain-specific benchmarks evaluating frontier AI agents on realistic workflows. You will work with a small, highly technical team to deliver evaluations trusted by AI labs and enterprise customers.

The role focuses on building benchmarks, infrastructure, and metrics while collaborating with domain experts to translate complex workflows into evaluation tasks and delivering thorough benchmark reports.