Applied AI Research Engineer

Appen

Remote regions

India

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About the Role:

  • Build practical AI research assets that support Frontier lab initiatives and customer engagements.
  • Work with autonomy, experimenting with new approaches and developing reusable solutions.
  • Partner closely with the GenAI Research team and cross-functional stakeholders.

Your Impact:

  • Build RL and agent environments, benchmarks, and evaluation harnesses for model and data quality.
  • Develop LLM pipelines and agentic systems for research, evaluation, and customer trials.
  • Document experiments, configurations, and results for reproducibility.

What You Bring:

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS, Engineering, ML, or related field with 3+ years of industry experience.
  • Strong software engineering skills and hands-on experience with agentic systems, RL environments, or LLM pipelines.
  • Ability to work independently and move quickly from idea to working solution.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

  • Culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence with humility over ego.
  • Flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team.
  • Tools, resources, and development opportunities to build your capabilities over time.

Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years, specializing in human-generated data to train, fine-tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, LLMs, computer vision, and speech recognition. They support model development through an AI-assisted data annotation platform and a global crowd of over 1 million contributors in more than 200 countries, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and humility over ego.

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