Research Engineer, Coding Evaluation & Training Data

As a Research Engineer, Coding Evaluation & Training Data at Surge, you'll sit at the intersection of software engineering and product to build and run the systems that teach frontier models how to code.

You’ll own end-to-end coding data projects for top AI labs, designing tasks, RL environments, and evaluation schemes that reflect real-world software engineering. This is an ideal role for a software engineer who wants to keep using their engineering skill set every day, but is most excited by training data quality, agentic evaluation, and system design (humans + models + tools) rather than traditional product feature work.

• Own end-to-end coding data projects, from initial scoping and pilot design through execution, iteration, and scale-up.
• Design agentic training workflows and task structures that mirror real-world SWE work (e.g., refactoring, debugging, code review, large-repo navigation, tool use).