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DecagonDecagonSan Francisco, CA

Senior Research Engineer

Senior Research Engineer leads development of conversational AI models for enterprise support agents, owning research-to-production initiatives to enhance reliability, capability, and efficiency. Requires 5+ years AI/ML experience with LLM deployment expertise.

300k – 400k/yr
On-site5+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead research and engineering efforts to improve core conversational capabilities in production, including instruction following, retrieval, memory, and long-horizon task completion.
  • Build and iterate on end-to-end models and pipelines that optimize for quality, efficiency, and user experience.
  • Partner with platform and product engineers to integrate new models into production systems.
  • Break down ambiguous research ideas into clear, iterative milestones and roadmaps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering or research.
  • Prior experience post-training and deploying LLMs in production environments.
  • Fluency in Python and modern ML tooling (training, evaluation, data pipelines).
  • Track record of taking research ideas from prototype → reliable, measurable production impact.

Compensation

$300K – $400K + Equity

Skills

PythonLLMsMachine LearningPyTorchTransformersPrompt EngineeringRetrieval Augmented GenerationModel EvaluationData PipelinesProduction Deployment

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