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# Research Engineer at Rwazi, Inc.

- **Company:** Rwazi, Inc.
- **Location:** Global
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rwazi/19398b95-985f-4f56-8f6a-f9f75ad480f0

## Job description

Research Engineer Team: Research & Development Location: Flexible / Remote Reporting to: Head of R&D

## Role Overview

Rwazi’s research initiatives require rapid experimentation, prototyping, and system validation. The Research Engineer enables applied research through technical system construction. This role builds prototypes, experimental pipelines, evaluation tooling, and research infrastructure that allow decision concepts to be tested under real-world constraints. The Research Engineer operationalizes research velocity.

Core Mandate The Research Engineer is accountable for:

- Building research prototypes and sandbox environments
- Developing evaluation tooling for decision systems
- Implementing experimental system architectures
- Enabling fast iteration between theory and validation
- Maintaining technical research infrastructure

This role bridges conceptual research and system reality.

## Key Responsibilities

Prototype Development

- Implement experimental decision pipelines
- Build modular, testable research architectures
- Translate conceptual models into runnable systems

Research Tooling & Infrastructure

- Create evaluation frameworks for reasoning outputs
- Build simulation environments for controlled testing
- Develop benchmarking systems for decision performance

Experiment Enablement

- Implement A/B logic and structured experiment tracking
- Optimize iteration cycles for research testing
- Ensure reproducibility of experimental results

System Integration Support

- Collaborate with Decision Research Scientists to encode models
- Provide technical validation of research concepts
- Identify engineering constraints early

## Role Impact

Strong performance in this role results in:

- Faster research iteration cycles
- More reliable prototype validation
- Reduced gap between research and production
- Higher experimental rigor

This role accelerates Rwazi’s long-term capability development.

What This Role Is Not

- This is not product feature engineering
- This is not maintenance development
- This is not short-term optimization

This role builds experimental systems.

## Qualifications and Profile

We are looking for individuals who demonstrate:

- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience building experimental or prototype systems
- Comfort working in ambiguous research environments
- Ability to balance speed and technical rigor
- Familiarity with AI pipelines or decision architectures

Candidates may come from research labs, AI startups, advanced analytics teams, or system architecture roles.

How Candidates Are Evaluated Candidates are evaluated based on:

- Their ability to rapidly implement experimental systems
- Technical clarity and modularity of their code
- Comfort working with incomplete specifications
- Understanding of evaluation logic and system validation
- Ability to collaborate with research-oriented thinkers

Summary The Research Engineer enables Rwazi’s applied decision research by building the technical infrastructure required to explore, validate, and evolve next-generation decision systems. If you'd like, we can next define:

- Decision Systems Fellow (elite individual contributor track)
- AI Evaluation & Alignment Lead
- Advanced Simulation Architect
- Future Platforms Lab

## About Rwazi, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rwazi is a decision AI platform that helps global brands turn real-time, zero-party consumer data into strategic actions to optimize product-market fit and campaign performance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Joseph Rutakangwa

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Consumer insights, market intelligence, AI-driven analytics
- Target customers: Fortune 500 brands across industries like consumer packaged goods, retail, and technology; primarily B2B, serving enterprise clients.
- Mission or purpose statement: "Helping global brands grow with AI trained on zero-party consumer data." [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Sena (Decision AI)**: World’s first Decision AI built on real-world data. It combines proprietary CRM/finance/product data (e.g., HubSpot, Google Sheets, SAP S/4HANA, Snowflake) with billions of verified, voluntarily shared consumer signals from 195+ countries. Users can ask a single question and get an executable decision—designed to reduce customer acquisition cost, increase customer lifetime value, and capture/grow market share. [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)
- **Zero-Party Data Collection**: A system that captures real-time consumer activity (what, when, where, how often, why) both online and offline across 5 million+ retail and digital locations, analyzing over 1 billion products. Data is voluntarily shared, audit-ready, and provenance-locked. [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**:
  - **Total Funding**: $20.0 million (across 4 rounds) [weforum.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)
  - **Annual Revenue**: $5.0M – $25.0M (estimated by external data providers) [apify.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)
- **Recent Funding (Series A)**: $12 million led by Bonfire Ventures (Aug 2025). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/rwazi)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Bonfire Ventures (lead), Techstars, Jobtech Innovation Lab [apify.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew 42% year-over-year (from 26 to 47 employees). [apify.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)
  - LinkedIn followers grew 68% year-over-year (7,510 followers). [apify.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)
  - Featuring on the "UrbanGeekz 50 2025: AI & Machine Learning" list. [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Ground-Truth Data**: Unlike generic AI models that reason over synthetic or web-scraped data, Sena is built on real-world signals directly and voluntarily shared by consumers. Every data point is traceable, consented, and audit-ready. [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)
- **Multi-Source Fusion**: Combines proprietary company data (CRM, financials) with billions of consumer signals—enabling an intersection of internal and external data for the first time. [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)
- **Global Scale**: Active in 190+ countries, spanning 5 million+ retail/digital locations, and analyzing 1 billion+ products. [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding enterprise adoption among Fortune 500 brands (especially as compliance-heavy industries are a key target). [rwazi.com](https://rwazi.com/)
- Continuing to build out the "Decision AI" category, replacing intuition-based decisions (gut calls) with data-driven, executable plans. [yahoo.com](https://rwazi.com/about)
- International growth: maintaining and scaling teams in the US, Kenya, Nigeria, Vietnam, India, and other countries. [apify.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Growth**: Fast-growing startup (42% headcount growth YoY) with a globally distributed team across 14+ countries. Recent $12M Series A indicates strong financial backing and runway. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/rwazi)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Distributed workforce with a significant presence in the US (Los Angeles HQ) and a strong engineering/data team in Africa (Kenya, Nigeria). Likely supports remote/hybrid work given the global nature of the team. [apify.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Focus on building at the frontier of AI and real-world data. Department breakdown shows a mix of General Management (11%), Research (10%), Technical (10%), and Marketing (8%). A meaningful share of the team is in Research and Engineering roles. [apify.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)

## Sources
1. [Company Website](https://rwazi.com/)
2. [About Page](https://rwazi.com/about)
3. [Company LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rwazi)
4. [CB Insights Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/rwazi)
5. [Jobs / Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rwazi)

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