Applied Research Engineer, Agents

Responsibilities

• Focused on LLMs, analyze and interpret complex data types to derive and implement cutting edge insight generation systems
• Iterate and explore new LLM and NLP techniques to maintain industry leadership
• Utilize expertise in statistics, programming, and machine learning to develop and deploy data-driven models and algorithms
• Contribute to solving business problems, improving processes, and enhancing overall company performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve NLP/LLM capabilities in applications
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements and research in the space
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate agentic capabilities into existing systems or develop new applications
• Ensure that systems are efficient, maintainable, and well monitored
• Iterate on validation and testing frameworks

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years software development experience at a venture-backed startup or top technology firm, with a focus on applied machine learning systems
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Experience with NLP and text processing libraries such as NLTK, SpaCy, or Apache Tika
• Experience with Search and Indexing technologies
• Proficient in machine learning techniques and algorithms
• Experience working with foundational models and corresponding APIs
• Knowledge of statistical analysis and data scraping techniques
• Prior experience in developing NLP models and systems
• Strong capability to translate research into production software systems
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities

Nice-to-Haves

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Machine Learning or a related field
• Experience working with Attention based NLP models
• Experience with prompting and building LLM applications and agents
• Experience building agentic systems or LLM enabled products
• Frequent user of AI products, especially during the development lifecycle (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code)

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $160,000 to $300,000
• Unlimited PTO
• Medical + Dental + Vision + 401K
• Catered lunch daily + DoorDash dinner credit if staying late
• 3 months non-birthing parent / 4 months birthing parent parental leave
• $15k lifetime fertility benefits
• Competitive new hire equity grant