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As a founding Forward Deployed Research Engineer, you’ll design, deliver, and scale production-grade AI agents and systems that sit at the core of some of the world's largest enterprises. These agents are already running in production across industries like finance, healthcare, and commerce.
You'll own the process from pilot through deployment and continuous iteration, creating best practices as you go. You’ll partner directly with leaders at the world’s largest enterprises as well as cutting-edge startups, embedding AI agents into their workflows to transform how they operate at scale. Your work will also develop our core platform, surfacing unmet needs, prototyping new features, and collaborating with research and product to push the boundaries of adaptive intelligence.
Ship production-grade AI agents that are essential for customers
Partner with enterprise leaders to understand their hardest problems and embed AI agents across their workflows
Shape the evolution of our platform through direct customer engagements, surfacing unmet needs and prototyping new tools and features
Collaborate with product, platform, and research teams to define architectures, eval frameworks, and generative agent development practices
Experience building and scaling end-to-end production systems
Experience building RL environments and evals for language models
Strong technical problem-solving skills, especially in fast-changing, ambiguous environments
Comfort balancing speed of iteration with rigor, reliability, and craft
Customer obsession and ability to quickly anticipate customer needs
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