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Harnham

Research Engineer, Data

Full Time · Remote · USA

$300,000–$400,000 · Posted Jun 22, 2026

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  • Title: Research Engineer, Data
  • Location: USA Remote
  • Compensation: Up to $400k + Equity

We’re partnered with a well-funded AI research company focused on building next-generation multimodal models for media and interactive experiences. Their work spans cutting-edge generative systems and is increasingly moving toward real-time, interactive environments, pushing beyond static outputs into dynamic, AI-driven applications.

This is a high-impact, research-meets-engineering role focused on the data that powers advanced AI systems. You’ll own how models learn, designing datasets, running experiments, and building data pipelines that directly shape model capabilities across a wide range of applications.

  • What You’ll Do
  • Design multimodal, multitask datasets to unlock new model capabilities
  • Run controlled experiments to understand how data impacts model performance
  • Build and scale pipelines for synthetic data generation, filtering, and quality control
  • Define evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to measure real-world model improvement
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into data strategies
  • Requirements
  • 4+ years of experience in machine learning, ideally with a data-centric focus
  • Experience working with large multimodal datasets and generative models
  • Strong intuition for how data quality and composition impact model behavior
  • Experience across the full ML lifecycle, from data to training to evaluation
  • Proficiency with ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX
  • Experience with distributed systems or compute tools (e.g., Ray, Kubernetes)
  • Strong interest in advancing next-generation AI systems
  • Nice to Have
  • Experience with synthetic data generation or data curation at scale
  • Background working on multimodal or video-based models
  • Exposure to evaluation and benchmarking for generative systems

If you're interested in shaping the data that defines what AI models can learn and do, this is a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of multimodal AI.

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Research Engineer, Data

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