Applied AI Engineer - Agent

About this role

We’re hiring an Applied AI Engineer to push the boundaries of our Cofounder agent. You’ll own core backend systems and applied LLM work: advancing agent reliability and autonomy, building evaluation pipelines, and shipping techniques that measurably improve agent performance. This is a hands-on role with high ownership across research-to-production: prototyping, instrumenting, evaluating, and deploying improvements that show up directly in user outcomes.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Design and implement agent improvements end-to-end: prompting strategies, tool selection, action planning, memory usage, safety/guardrails, and recovery paths

- Build robust evaluation pipelines for the agent: offline evals (golden tasks, regression suites, behavior tests), online metrics (latency, success rate, fallout modes, cost efficiency), and experimentation frameworks (A/B, canaries, guardrail thresholds)

- Productionize applied LLM techniques: function/tool-calling orchestration, self-reflection, retrieval/RAG, multi-agent handoffs, caching/embedding strategies, and hallucination reduction

- Improve core backend systems: reliable job orchestration, retries/backoff, idempotency, and auditability; scalable memory and context routing; data pipelines across Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, Google Workspace, etc.; observability and tracing for agent actions/outcomes

- Partner with product and infra to define success metrics and ship fast, safe iterations

- Write clean, well-tested code; document design decisions and runbooks

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

- 4+ years backend engineering experience, preferably Python (we care about impact over years)

- Hands-on LLM experience: prompt engineering, function-calling, retrieval, embeddings, evaluation design; you’ve shipped LLM features to production

- Track record building evaluation harnesses and using them to drive improvements (regression suites, task success metrics, cost/runtime tradeoffs)

- Solid distributed systems fundamentals: concurrency, reliability, performance, data modeling, lifecycle management

- Pragmatic experimentation: hypothesis → prototype → measured improvement → rollout

- Excellent debugging and instrumentation skills; you enjoy finding and fixing edge cases in the wild

NICE TO HAVE

- Experience with agent frameworks, tool orchestration, and memory architectures

- RAG systems in production (chunking, retrieval quality, freshness strategies)

- Redis, Postgres/Supabase, queues (e.g., Celery/Arq/SQS), and event-driven designs

- Observability stacks (Datadog, OpenTelemetry), and cost/latency optimization

WHY JOIN US

- Mission: build autonomous agents that run entire businesses

- Impact: ship core agent improvements that users feel immediately

- Velocity: small, senior team; fast decision cycles; high ownership

- Stack: modern tooling across AI orchestration, integrations, and memory systems

COMPENSATION

- Competitive salary and meaningful equity

- Comprehensive benefits and flexible work setup

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