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Member of Technical Staff- Research Engineer (Harness Engineering and Agentic Orchestration)

London Office💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-28 → 2026-07-31

Core

Building the context layer for AI coding agents and a platform for AI-native software development, focusing on agent harness orchestration, evaluation methodologies, and failure-mode analysis.

Role type

Research Engineer (AI Research)

Builds

AI coding agent platform, agent harnesses, evaluation infrastructure, and production pipelines for AI-native software development.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Software Development / B2B SaaS

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Agent harness and orchestration design, Agentic eval methodology, Outer-loop and pipeline thinking, Failure-mode analysis, LLMs and agentic systems experience, Dataset building and curation, Customer workflow analysis, Prototype development, Research rigour.

Preferred skills

Masters or PhD in computational field, Coding agents or code-generation systems experience, RL or bandits experience, Synthetic data infrastructure, GitHub project portfolio.

Technologies

LLMs, Agent frameworks, Evaluation datasets, Trace analysis tools, Python (implied by engineering context), GitHub.

Responsibilities

Design agent harnesses and orchestration logic, Build and maintain evaluation infrastructure and datasets, Analyze agent traces to diagnose failure modes, Prototype new harness configurations, Collaborate with engineering on near-term shipping problems, Translate research papers into concrete experiments.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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