Raindrop
Founding Research Engineer
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
About the job
Study how AI agents behave in production, set Raindrop’s research agenda, and develop research methods and prototypes for monitoring, simulation, and issue detection.
What you'll do
- Set the research agenda, run experiments, and design evaluations and metrics where ground truth is unclear.
- Publish findings as papers, blog posts, and talks; prototype methods and bring successful ones into the product when appropriate.
- Help define the research function as the team and product grow.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in an area such as interpretability, evals, AI safety, anomaly detection, or representation learning.
- Strong written and communication skills to explain complex ideas clearly.
- Good judgment about which experiments to run and when a result is real.
- Ability to ship experiments and build prototypes; use and build AI agents and tools.
Nice to have
- Sharing research through publications, open-source work, or public write-ups.
AI focus
Research AI-agent behavior in production, including failures, simulations, safety, and methods for detecting previously undefined issues.
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