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# Research Engineer in Data

- **Company:** Synthesia Limited
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Big Data, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Generative AI, Data Layers, Code Testing
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/research-engineer-in-data-synthesiaio-7803889

## About the Role

* A strong background in data-centric, applied Machine Learning, with hands-on experience improving model performance through data quality, curation, labeling, and evaluation rather than model architecture alone
 * Experience working on the data layer of Generative AI products, particularly involving images, video, or audio
 * Excellent Python skills, with a strong focus on writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
 * Nice to have if you have experience designing, building, and operating workflow orchestration systems and large-scale data processing pipelines

## Description

At Synthesia we're passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.


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