HUD

Forward Deployed Research Engineer

We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
HUD
Location
San Francisco, CA
Seniority
Not stated
Experience asked for
Not stated
Pay band
$140K – $250K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-07-14 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

technical problem diagnosistechnical resolutiontool and pipeline developmentdebuggingindependent operationtradeoffsrecurring issues documentationpythondockerlinux

From the posting

About HUD HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25. About The Role We’re looking for an Applied Research Engineer to own implementation. Our data buyers and sellers often have time-sensitive asks such as troubleshooting and running evals or cleaning data at scale. You’ll take the lead on diagnosing ambiguous technical problems and resolving them. This work is broad and hands-on - the right fit is a strong generalist AI engineer who can move quickly and wants to work closely with frontier AI labs and data vendors. …

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