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Member of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities)

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building foundational agent capabilities that turn frontier AI model breakthroughs into reliable, scalable product features for users and agents.

Role type

Senior IC Applied AI Engineer (Agent Systems)

Builds

Production agent systems, tools, plugins, and multi-agent collaboration features

Domain

Generative AI, Agent Systems, Platform Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Software engineering fundamentals, AI/ML product lifecycle ownership, agent harness design, tool use and context engineering, model evaluation, distributed systems, backend services

Preferred skills

LLM context engineering, subagent architecture, long-running autonomous task execution, mid/post-training and reinforcement learning, AI/ML research publications

Technologies

Python, Go, Rust, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS, TypeScript

Responsibilities

Evaluate frontier models against real user tasks and turn advances into production agent systems; Improve agents' planning, tool use, context management, and error recovery; Design scalable agent capabilities like skills, plugins, and auto-research; Own agent behavior end-to-end including offline/online evaluation and monitoring; Build secure, observable agent systems with permissions and safeguards; Collaborate with PM, Data Science, and Research to productize complex agent behaviors

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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