Founding Research Engineer

Raindrop is hiring a Founding Research Engineer to study how AI agents behave in production and set the company’s research agenda. The role involves designing experiments and evaluations, publishing findings, and prototyping methods that may be incorporated into the product.

Responsibilities:

• Set Raindrop’s research agenda and run the experiments behind it
• Design evaluations and metrics for problems where the ground truth is unclear
• Publish findings as papers, blog posts, and talks
• Prototype new methods, and bring the ones that work into the product when it makes sense
• Help define what research looks like at Raindrop as the team and product grows