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Machine Learning Engineer, Evals

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Required skills

  • agent capability evals
  • benchmark design
  • LLM-as-judge systems
  • failure analysis
  • infrastructure
  • eval pipeline
  • judge calibration protocol
  • human-labeled decisions
  • agreement measurement
  • drift zones

Nice to have

  • RLVR
  • training data curation
  • distributed eval orchestration
  • benchmark design from scratch
  • red teaming
  • adversarial eval

Role summary

The Machine Learning Engineer, Evals role focuses on designing and implementing evaluation infrastructure for agent capabilities and LLM-as-judge systems. Responsibilities include running end-to-end evaluation pipelines, developing judge calibration protocols, extending benchmarks with new tasks, performing failure analysis on model outputs, and owning recurring evaluation workflows. The role requires 3+ years of experience in software engineering, ML engineering, or data science, with concrete evaluation experience. Proficiency in Python, LLM evaluation frameworks, hands-on LLM experience (prompting, fine-tuning, RAG), and understanding of basic evaluation statistics are essential. Experience with Git, CI/CD, Docker, and Linux is also required. Preferred qualifications include RLHF, distributed eval orchestration, benchmark design, red teaming, and psychometrics.

The Role

You'll work across the lab on agent capability evals, benchmark design, LLM-as-judge systems, failure analysis, and the infrastructure that ties it together. This is a high-growth, high-ownership role on a small team, and you'll ship evaluation infrastructure that researchers depend on from day one.

Responsibilities

  • Run the full eval pipeline end to end and reproduce known results during onboarding, pairing with a senior engineer on your first task

  • Build a judge calibration protocol: sample human-labeled decisions, measure agreement (κ, per-class P/R), identify drift zones, and document it so anyone can re-run it

  • Extend an existing benchmark (GAIA, τ-Bench, SWE-bench slice, etc.) with new tasks targeting known capability gaps, including the prompt, environment, rubric, automated grader, and QA

  • Run failure analysis on model outputs: categorize failure modes, quantify prevalence, and write up findings with recommendations for training data, judge prompts, or benchmark changes

  • Own a recurring eval workflow (weekly regression suite, judge drift dashboard, red-team evaluation for a new capability) and ship tooling researchers actually use

Qualifications

  • 3+ years in software engineering, ML engineering, data science, or a research-adjacent role, with concrete evaluation experience from coursework, an internship, a side project, open source work, or a job

  • Experience with at least one LLM evaluation framework (Harbor, Nemo Evaluator, etc.), with real opinions on what it does well and where it falls short

  • Hands-on experience with LLMs: prompting, few-shot design, and ideally fine-tuning or RAG; regular use of coding agents

  • Solid Python. You write clean, tested, version-controlled code that a colleague could run without you babysitting it

  • Comfort with Git, CI/CD basics, Docker, and the Linux command line (SSH, tmux, debugging a remote job)

  • Understanding of basic eval statistics: why accuracy misleads on imbalanced judges, what Cohen's κ measures, how to think about confidence intervals on a metric

  • At least 3 of the following: you can explain why LLM-as-judge needs calibration; you've done failure analysis and can tell model bugs apart from prompt, grader, or retrieval issues; you know at least two agent benchmarks (GAIA, AgentBench, τ-Bench, MINT, SWE-bench, WebShop, ALFWorld) and a limitation of each; you've designed or extended an eval dataset with happy paths, edge cases, and adversarial examples; you've thought about non-determinism in eval, how you sample, how many runs, how you report variance

  • You communicate clearly to both researchers and engineers, in the right language for each

  • You're comfortable with ambiguity, can turn a half-formed request into a plan, and know when to ask for help

Preferred

  • RLVR / RLHF pipeline experience

  • Training data curation experience

  • Distributed eval orchestration experience

  • Benchmark design from scratch

  • Red teaming and adversarial eval experience

  • Familiarity with psychometrics or measurement theory

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