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Research Engineer, Data Foundations

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Source: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runway-ml/f74afbd9-b4e8-4b87-835a-5e22dcc556ae

Last verified Sep 16, 2026. Postings close without notice; check the source before you rely on it.

What the posting clearly emphasises

  • Multimodal datasets and synthetic data generation.
  • Controlled training experiments and benchmark work.
  • Distributed compute, translated into product and creative outcomes.

Paraphrased from the public posting.

What that likely means for preparation

  • Experiment design is the centre: controls, confounds, and how you attribute a quality change to a data change rather than to noise.
  • Be ready to discuss synthetic data honestly — where it helps, where it collapses diversity, and how you detect that.
  • Data pipeline scale questions are likely: dedup, filtering, provenance and throughput.

Inference from the posting. Not confirmed.

What stays unknown about the loop

  • Whether a data or analysis take-home is used, and how much modelling depth is expected.
  • The round order, count and length. Postings describe the job, not the loop.
  • Whether AI assistants are allowed, required or banned in any coding exercise.

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