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From the employer's careers site First seen 7 Nov 2026

Research Engineer, Benchmarks & Evaluation

Ramp New York, NY Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$204.4K - $352K per year

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Description

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends.

You will own Ramp's benchmarking effort, turning real finance work into benchmarks and RL environments, building graders, and telling the team what is actually improving.

Responsibilities

  • Build benchmarks from real workflows: turn agent traces, customer edge cases and expert labels into versioned benchmark suites for long-horizon agents that run for hours across tools and systems, plus tool use, multi-step reasoning and financial judgment
  • Own the benchmarking effort: decide what we measure, run benchmark suites across models and agent versions, and report results the team makes decisions on
  • Design graders: rubrics, programmatic checks and llm-as-judge, calibrated against human agreement, with a clear view of where each one breaks
  • Close the loop with post-training: turn evals into reward functions and RL environments, and catch reward hacking and contamination before they ship
  • Publish external benchmarks and write-ups on how models perform at real finance work

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building LLM benchmarks or evals that people used to make real decisions
  • Strong Python and software engineering; your eval code is reproducible and fast
  • Statistical judgment: variance, confidence intervals, sample size, inter-rater agreement, and knowing when a delta is noise
  • Working knowledge of post-training (SFT, RL with verifiable rewards) and how evals feed into it
  • Comfort with SQL and large datasets; you'll work directly from production traces

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO
  • Centralized home-office equipment ordering
  • Health and wellness stipend
  • Budget for intra-office travel
  • Weekly coffee stipend
  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents (US)
  • One Medical annual membership (US)
  • 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp (US)
  • Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year) (US)
  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay (US)

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • industry experience on an eval, benchmarking or post-training team
  • Built RL environments or verifiers for agentic tasks
  • Published benchmark or evaluation research
  • Built or contributed to eval frameworks
  • Familiarity with accounting, finance or other expert-domain work

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