Senior Research Engineer - Experimental Engineering

Consumer Reports is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to a fair and just marketplace for all. They are seeking a Senior Research Engineer to lead exploratory research engineering focused on innovative applications of AI and machine learning, driving forward R&D efforts in new products.

Responsibilities:

• Lead exploratory spikes, proof-of-concept projects, and early-stage prototyping end-to-end to test high-impact, forward-looking ideas
• Identify strategic opportunities in emerging technologies (notably AI/ML) and translate these opportunities into actionable prototypes
• Serve as a technical leader on AskCR, our RAG chatbot built on Consumer Reports' product testing, journalism, and advocacy work and own architectural decisions on retrieval, evaluation, and orchestration
• Collaborate closely on technical planning, architecture, and implementation efforts for AskCR, our RAG chatbot built on Consumer Report’s product testing, journalism and advocacy work
• Work collaboratively across cross-functional teams (Digital Product, Product Testing, User Research, Data Engineering, Advocacy) to share insights and ensure learnings are leveraged broadly across Consumer Reports
• Establish and refine practices for documenting experiments and synthesizing research outputs to maximize their organizational impact
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the team
• Cultivate a culture of curiosity, experimentation, rapid learning, and discovery