Software Engineer, OpenShell
Core
Build runtime infrastructure for secure, scalable, production-grade AI agents by translating research into product features and tools.
Role type
Senior IC research engineer (AI agent infrastructure)
Builds
Runtime infrastructure, agent harnesses, evaluation loops, self-improving workflows, and developer experiences for enterprise AI agents.
Domain
Artificial Intelligence / Agentic Systems / High-Performance Computing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
LLMs, agent harnesses, multimodal generative models, evaluation frameworks, synthetic data generation, post-training, inference infrastructure/optimization, adversarial ML, agent safety/security, rapid prototyping, benchmarking, secure-by-default workflow design, product sense, UX/AX focus.
Preferred skills
Secure agent runtimes, tool sandboxing, capability-based security, enterprise policy systems, compliance/governance (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR), LLM inference backends (Triton, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, Ray, Kubernetes), open-source AI agent development.
Responsibilities
Track cutting-edge research in agentic systems; identify and validate research ideas for product integration; build rapid proof-of-concepts; design evaluation and red-team harnesses; secure agent workflows; partner across engineering, product, and research teams.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
